[pdftex] Newbie trouble

[Emil Bäckmark (ERA)]

Hi!

I'm having troubles executing several of the binaries of the pdftex distribution. I compiled the source tar ball (whith some need for manual hacking, due to lex problems) and installed it to /opt/pdftex. Now, when I try to execute eg. texi2dvi whith a TeX file as parameter I get several outprints of 'kpsewhich: Cannot find ELF' and finally 'fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.'.

Seems some path is missing, since 'fmtutil.cnf' exists in /opt/pdftex/share/texmf/web2c. In what environment variable should I state that path?

'texi2dvi --help' says something of the need for some environment variables (eg. TEX, TEXINDEX), but gives no explanation on what values they should have.

Please help me out, this one should be easy...

Tia
/ Emil