[tldistro] porting problem

[Norbert Preining]

On Fr, 27 Jul 2012, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> 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.

Arggg, before porting *anything* have you ever ever ever installed
TeX Live yourself and checked how formats are build and all the 
stuff?

How do you think porting works? By *not* knowing the basics of the
system?

BTW, JFY, why don't you run *once* fmtutil through bash -x to see
what is going wrong, you would have easily found that problem.

BTW II, if you *ONLY* build from texlive source.tar.xz, you will
*NOT* get *ANYTHING* working. You *NEED* the files distributed as
least in Master/texmf/ at least, but probably a lot from 
Master/texmf-dist, too. You need to know what you want.

Best wishes

Norbert
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