[pdftex] Rebuilding pdftex gives ---! Must increase the hyph_size (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

[George N. White III]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've applied a small patch (unrelated to hyphenation) to pdftex 1.40.9
> sources and I've successfully recompiled it. But when I try to use it
> against the TeXLive 2008 tree (without overwriting the old binary),
> I'm getting this:
>
> fmtutil: /home/vga/.texlive2008/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt installed.
> ---! Must increase the hyph_size
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
> Changing the hyph_size in texmf.cnf doesn's help. Any hints what could be wrong?

Have you built and run pdftex with the patch reversed (just to rule
out any issues with the
build)?

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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia