Fatal Format Error

[Fabrice Popineau]

* Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:

> So far as I know, the only reliable way to mix fpTeX with a
> Linux/Unix system is if you use the TeX Live 5 distribution [1],

Or you downgrade to the TL4 distribution ...

This is really a problem. You need to compile the same sources on all
the platforms, and it is not currently obvious to compile the whole
win32 stuff. As far as I recall, fptex-0.3 binaries where compatible
with teTeX-1.0. From 0.4 version, they are not compatible with teTeX
anymore, and they won't be until Thomas will find time to look at the
diffs and we do a new merge.

You have a simple workaround to search .fmt files in an architecture
specific location :
TEXFORMATS = .;$SELFAUTOLOC;$TEXMF/web2c
And put your win32 tex.fmt together with tex.dll . It will be harmless for
the bin/<arch> with no .fmt files, and the win32 one will be found by tex.exe.
It is untested but it should work.

Fabrice