pdflatex does not work on win after todays update but does on linux

[George N. White III]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 at 06:55, Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at bitmuis.nl> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 11:10:15AM +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 10:59:30AM +0200, Andreas Hirsch wrote:
> > > Hi Siep,
> > >
> > > Siep Kroonenberg schrieb am 13.06.2021 um 10:51:
> > >
> > > > So do I understand that if you access a local drive D: with share
> > > > syntax '\\localhost\D$' that then pdflatex does not crash?
> > >
> > > I was surprised too!
> > >
> > > I tested all variations of invoking pdflatex and compiling sample2e
> (see
> > > screenshot) withour any success.
> > >
> > > For the moment I take your statement from your previous mail an will
> switch
> > > to a local installation.
> > >
> > > But we should keep in mind this line from
> > > http://www.tug.org/texlive/windows.html#tlaunch
> > >
> > > 'TeX Live is designed for shared use: you can install TeX Live on a
> network
> > > for use on client workstations. All it takes is adding TeX Live to the
> > > searchpath.'
>

And has some limitations if you are trying to understand problems remote
users have with
local installs.


> > >
> > > Something must have changed on windows (or samba?)
>

or the build system.

> >
> > The ISO version still works over samba.
>
> So, as a temporary workaround, you can replace bin/win32.dll and
> bin/x86_64-linux/pdftex with the ISO versions and regenerate formats.
>

Or just switch to lualatex.

-- 
George N. White III
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