[pdftex] Stymied making fmt files for pdftex 1.11a

[Igor Khomyakov]

Hi James,

Have you tried the following:

su -
texconfig confall

Regards,
Igor.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Haefner" <jhaefner at biology.usu.edu>
To: "pdfTeX" <pdftex at tug.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:06 PM
Subject: [pdftex] Stymied making fmt files for pdftex 1.11a


> Help! For some reason, I can not generate the fmt files even though I have
done
> it a dozen times before.  Can any one help? Here's what I did on my
RedHat8.0
>
> put the pdftex.pool and pdftex binaries from
> http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/ (I used the links labeled:
> "i386-linux")
> into /usr/share/texmf/web2c
> (this is the final resting place for fmt files in RH8).  Then did (as I
always
> have successfully in the past):
>
>  > su -
>  > ./pdftex -ini -fmt=pdftex plain \\dump
> this produced tex.fmt, plain.log, plain.fmt; no pdftex.fmt
> there were no errors; here are the first few lines of plain.log
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a (Web2C 7.5.2) (INITEX)  18 SEP
2003 10:52
>   %&-line parsing enabled.
>   (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
> **plain \dump
>
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex{/root/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.
cfg
> } Preloading the plain format: codes, registers,
>
> (the pdftex man page says the format should be:
>  > ./pdftex --ini --fmt pdftex plain \\dump
> this produces the same result.)
>
> I also did the next step:
>  > ./pdftex -ini -fmt=pdflatex latex.ltx
> and generated latex.fmt, but no pdflatex.fmt
> the latex.log was also okay:
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a (Web2C 7.5.2) (INITEX)  18 SEP
2003 10:38
>   %&-line parsing enabled.
>   (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
> **latex.ltx
>
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx{/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/p
dft
> ex.cfg} (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/texsys.cfg)
>
> I also tried using pdfinitex, but that also did not produce pdftex.fmt
>
> -- 
> James W. Haefner             Email: jhaefner at biology.usu.edu
> Dept Biology/Ecology Center  Voice: 435-797-3553
> Utah State University        FAX:   435-797-1575
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