[tldistro] porting problem

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 27/07/2012 13:25, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> I am trying to port texlive to the FreeBSD ports. The number of issues
> building the system was quite low. Using system libraries, building
> and installing works fine.
>
> My problem is that no .fmt files are installed and fmtutil(-sys)
> does nothing:
>
> # fmtutil-sys --enablefmt pdflatex  1 /usr/local/share/texmf
> fmtutil: initial config file is `/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf'
> fmtutil: configuration file unchanged.
> # fmtutil-sys --listcfg
> # fmtutil-sys --all
>

I've finally found that the .ini files are missing. This sounds
trivial, but my google foo has not yielded any information about
where the .ini files come from, how to obtain or generate them.


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