[tlbuild] links changed in running installation after cross-compiling?

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:

> After successfully cross-compiling TL with mingw yesterday,
> I was very surprised today when my favourite shell told me "command not 
> found:
> latex". Turns out that in the bin directory of my TL installation, "latex" is
> now a symlink to "pdftex.exe".
>
> I'm quite sure I didn't mess with the installation myself, by stupidly 
> copying the contents of inst/bin/i586-pc-mingw in my bin directory, since:
> - there is no "latex" symlink in inst/bin/i586-pc-mingw anyway (?)
> - there is no "pdftex.exe" in my bin directory.
>
> So, I would suspect a problem with texlinks or the way it is called during 
> cross-compilation.

Hi Manuel,

don't think so.  I'd rather suspect that comes from running fmtutil.

You probably have already removed the offending sysmlink, otherwise it's
timestamp could have indicated when it was created.

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>