[tex-live] [pretest] pdfcsplain is bad linked in x86_64-linux

[Zdenek Wagner]

2014-05-07 21:03 GMT+02:00 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:

> On 2014-05-07 at 19:27:45 +0200, Petr Olsak wrote:
>
>  > On Wed, 7 May 2014, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>  >
>  > > I vaguely remember that the symlinks are created by fmtutil.  If true,
>  > > probably the order has to be changed in fmtutil.cnf:
>  > >
>  > > It currently is:
>  > >
>  > >  csplain pdftex - -etex -enc csplain-utf8.ini
>  > >  pdfcsplain pdftex - -etex -enc csplain-utf8.ini
>  > >  pdfcsplain xetex - -etex csplain.ini
>  > >  pdfcsplain luatex - -etex csplain.ini
>  > >
>  > > Could you try
>  > >
>  > >  csplain pdftex - -etex -enc csplain-utf8.ini
>  > >  pdfcsplain xetex - -etex csplain.ini
>  > >  pdfcsplain luatex - -etex csplain.ini
>  > >  pdfcsplain pdftex - -etex -enc csplain-utf8.ini
>  > >
>  > > instead?
>  >
>  > This is probably not true. The tl2013 includes the
>  > same text as tl2014 in fmtutil.cnf, i.e.:
>  >
>  > csplain pdftex - -etex -enc csplain-utf8.ini
>  > pdfcsplain pdftex - -etex -enc csplain-utf8.ini
>  > pdfcsplain xetex - -etex csplain.ini
>  > pdfcsplain luatex - -etex csplain.ini
>  >
>  > and the symlinks are right (pdfcsplain -> pdftex) in tl2013.
>
> I just checked myself.  Symlinks are not created by fmtutil itself but
> by Thomas Esser's texconfig.  When I change fmtutil.cnf as I suggested
> and run "texconfig-sys init" I indeed get
>

I probably know the reason. I am doing my own build to verify it.

>
>   pdfcsplain -> pdftex
>
> However, texconfig is not an option because it's not running on
> Windows and doesn't create wrappers for Windows.
>
> BTW, "tlmgr generate fmtutil" restores the original order.
>
> I must admit that I'm not very happy with three (format) files with
> the same name in different directories.  Each engine finds the
> appropriate format file but it's difficult to maintain symlinks, for
> instance.
>
> In general I think that information like this should be in the config
> file and the config file should be processed in a deterministic way.
> However, since pdfcsplain is the only program which has this problem,
> I'm convinced that it's not worth the trouble.  It should be
> sufficient to restore the behavior of TL-2013.
>
> IMO it's a pity that fmtutil doesn't maintain the symlinks by itself.
> There is no easy way to add such a feature without writing fmtutil
> from scratch because we still have two different programs for Unix and
> Windows.
>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard
>
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