[pdftex] Core Dump on Cygwin

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, James Buchanan wrote:

> $ pdftex samplepdf
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14f-released-
> (samplepdf.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config
> Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for am
> ohyphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/plain/misc/pdfcolor.
> /pdftex.map}Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> ---
>
> Can someone please help me to fix this so I can make PDFs? Thanks
> heaps!
>
> I am using the latest Cygwin dist on Windows 2000.

If so, it is far from current.  Try using fptex instead:

[c:/R/rw1050/src/gnuwin32]% pdflatex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-pre-1.0-unofficial-20010704 (Web2c 7.3.3.1)
(c:/TeX/fptex/texmf/tex/latex/tools/x.tex{c:/TeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex
.cfg}
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german,
ngerman, dumylang, nohyphenation, loaded.

And that's from TeXLive 5, last summer (although my LaTeX is I believe
updated).

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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