In my gentoo system /var/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.conf is a symbolic link to<br>/etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.conf.<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>[root@erdos
/var/lib/texmf/web2c]# ls -l texmf.cnf<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2006-05-27 22:30 texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<br><br>As following your simple solution, I made symbolic link as following.<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>ln -s /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Next, I excuted commands that previously occured errors.<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<br>[root@erdos/usr/share/texmf/web2c]# xetex -ini -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex *xetex.ini<br>This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.992 (Web2C 7.5.3) (INITEX)<br>entering extended mode<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/xetex/config/xetex.ini
<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes,<br>registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts, macros, math definitions,<br>output routines, hyphenation (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex))
<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xetex/unicode-letters.tex) )<br>Beginning to dump on file xetex.fmt<br> (format=xetex 2006.5.29)<br>67488 strings of total length 31386<br>5072 memory locations dumped; current usage is 110&4877
<br>1030 multiletter control sequences<br>\font\nullfont=nullfont<br>\font\tenrm=cmr10<br>\font\preloaded=cmr9<br>\font\preloaded=cmr8<br>\font\sevenrm=cmr7<br>\font\preloaded=cmr6<br>\font\fiverm=cmr5<br>\font\teni=cmmi10
<br>\font\preloaded=cmmi9<br>\font\preloaded=cmmi8<br>\font\seveni=cmmi7<br>\font\preloaded=cmmi6<br>\font\fivei=cmmi5<br>\font\tensy=cmsy10<br>\font\preloaded=cmsy9<br>\font\preloaded=cmsy8<br>\font\sevensy=cmsy7<br>\font\preloaded=cmsy6
<br>\font\fivesy=cmsy5<br>\font\tenex=cmex10<br>\font\preloaded=cmss10<br>\font\preloaded=cmssq8<br>\font\preloaded=cmssi10<br>\font\preloaded=cmssqi8<br>\font\tenbf=cmbx10<br>\font\preloaded=cmbx9<br>\font\preloaded=cmbx8
<br>\font\sevenbf=cmbx7<br>\font\preloaded=cmbx6<br>\font\fivebf=cmbx5<br>\font\tentt=cmtt10<br>\font\preloaded=cmtt9<br>\font\preloaded=cmtt8<br>\font\preloaded=cmsltt10<br>\font\tensl=cmsl10<br>\font\preloaded=cmsl9<br>
\font\preloaded=cmsl8<br>\font\tenit=cmti10<br>\font\preloaded=cmti9<br>\font\preloaded=cmti8<br>\font\preloaded=cmti7<br>\font\preloaded=cmu10<br>\font\preloaded=cmmib10<br>\font\preloaded=cmbsy10<br>\font\preloaded=cmcsc10
<br>\font\preloaded=cmssbx10<br>\font\preloaded=cmdunh10<br>\font\preloaded=cmr7 at 14.51799pt<br>\font\preloaded=cmtt10 at 14.4pt<br>\font\preloaded=cmssbx10 at 14.4pt<br>\font\preloaded=manfnt<br>14787 words of font info for 50 preloaded fonts
<br>14 hyphenation exceptions<br>Hyphenation trie of length 6076 has 181 ops out of 35111<br> 181 for language 0<br>No pages of output.<br>Transcript written on xetex.log.<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<br>Wow, it seems OK. But the following command occurs error.<br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>[root@erdos/usr/share/texmf/web2c]# xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex *
xelatex.ini<br>This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.992 (Web2C 7.5.3) (INITEX)<br>entering extended mode<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/xelatex/config/xelatex.ini<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xetex/unicode-letters.tex)<br>
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/texsys.cfg)<br>./texsys.aux found<br><br><br>\@currdir set to: ./.<br><br><br>Assuming \openin and \input<br>have the same search path.<br><br>
<br>Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser.<br><br>catcodes, registers, compatibility for TeX 2, parameters,<br>LaTeX2e <2003/12/01><br>hacks, control, par, spacing, files, font encodings, lengths,<br>====================================
<br><br>Local config file fonttext.cfg used<br><br>====================================<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/fonttext.cfg<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fonttext.ltx<br>=== Don't modify this file, use a .cfg file instead ===
<br><br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omlenc.def)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.def)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omsenc.def)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1cmr.fd)
<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ot1cmr.fd)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ot1cmss.fd)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ot1cmtt.fd)))<br>====================================<br><br>Local config file fontmath.cfg
used<br><br>====================================<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/fontmath.cfg<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontmath.ltx<br>=== Don't modify this file, use a .cfg file instead ===<br><br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omlcmm.fd)
<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmsy.fd)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omxcmex.fd)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ucmr.fd)))<br>====================================<br><br>Local config file preload.cfg used
<br><br>=====================================<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/preload.cfg<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/preload.ltx)) page nos., x-ref, environments,<br>center, verbatim, math definitions, boxes, title, sectioning, contents,
<br>floats, footnotes, index, bibliography, output,<br>===========================================<br>Local configuration file hyphen.cfg used<br>===========================================<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg
<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/frhyph.tex<br>frhyph.tex - French hyphenation patterns (V2.12) <2002/12/11>)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dehypht.tex
<br>German Traditional Hyphenation Patterns `dehypht' Version 3.2a <1999/03/03><br>(Formerly known under the name `ghyph31' and `ghyphen'.))<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dehyphn.tex<br>New German Hyphenation Patterns `dehyphn'
Rev.31 <2001-05-07> (WaS))<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/inhyph.tex)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/bahyph.tex)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/bghyph/bghyphen.tex<br>Bulgarian hyphenation patterns (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/bghyph/catmik.tex)
<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/bghyph/mik2t2.tex)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/bghyph/bghyphsi.tex))<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/cahyph.tex<br>Catalan Hyphenation Patterns `cahyphen' Version 1.11 <2003/07/15>)
<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hrhyph.tex)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/czhyph.tex<br>** This file not yet adapted for XeTeX/Unicode -- ignored **)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dkhyphen.tex
<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dkcommon.tex)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dkspecial.tex))<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/nehyph.tex)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/eohyph.tex<br>Esperanto Hyphenation Patterns `eohyph', 1999-08-10)
<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/eehyph.tex)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/fi8hyph.tex)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/grhyph.tex<br>Greek language hyphenation patterns)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/icehyph.tex)
<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/gahyph.tex<br>Hyphenation patterns `gahyph.tex' Version 1.0 <2004/01/22>)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/ithyph.tex)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/lahyph.tex
<br>Latin Hyphenation Patterns `lahyph' Version 3.0b <2001/11/21>)<br>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/huhyphn.tex<br>Huhyphn - hungarian hyphenation patterns v20031107<br>! Nonletter.<br>l.33 .adà±±<br> s
<br>? <br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>To support your debugging, I attached gentoo ebuild files for tetex installation
<br>that was written in bash script and <a href="http://texmf.in">texmf.in</a> file that was generated in xetex installation.<br><br>In-Soo, Oh<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/5/29, Ralf Stubner <
<a href="mailto:ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de">ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jonathan Kew <<a href="mailto:jonathan_kew@sil.org">jonathan_kew@sil.org</a>> writes:<br><br>> Note how pdftex has a compiled-in default search location of /var/lib/<br>> texmf/web2c, but in xetex the corresponding location is /usr/share/
<br>> texmf/web2c.<br><br>I would guess that /var/lib/texmf/ is explicitly added in the gentoo<br>builds of teTeX. I find it difficult to imagine how the web2c configure<br>scripts could pickup this variable all by itself.
<br><br>> A "quick fix" might be to create a symlink so that these locations<br>> are actually the same, assuming /usr/share/texmf/web2c doesn't<br>> already exist with different contents on your system:
<br>><br>> ln -s /var/lib/texmf/web2c /usr/share/texmf/web2c<br>><br>> or even perhaps make the symlink for the texmf level rather than web2c.<br><br>On Debian, /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf is a symlink to the
<br>/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf. In addition, Debian uses a shared libkpathsea such<br>that tex at all don't know about such compiletime defaults. I haven't<br>tried building XeTeX that way, though, and I don't know if that is also
<br>done on Gentoo.<br><br>> The real question, though, is why the xetex configuration gets this<br>> wrong, giving you incorrect definitions in paths.h during the build.<br><br>Maybe because you are searching for '
hyphen.tex', which is probably<br>below /usr/share/texmf. I think XeTeX needs compiletime defaults only<br>for finding texmf.cnf. After that, the paths defined in there should be<br>used. So it might make sense to use 'kpsewhich
texmf.cnf' instead. But<br>maybe the setup used by Gentoo with texmf.cnf in /var/lib/texmf is<br>simply broken?<br><br>cheerio<br>ralf<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>XeTeX mailing list<br><a href="mailto:postmaster@tug.org">
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