[XeTeX] xelatex.fmt not found after update

[Jon Breitenbucher]

On Oct 6, 2005, at 6:54 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 06.10.2005 um 19:39 schrieb Florian Grammel:
>
>
>> TeXShop kept reporting that "xelatex.fmt" couldn't be found. When  
>> I looked for the file, both xetex.fmt and xelatex.fmt were  
>> actually missing from texmf.local/web2c. Also another attempt to  
>> install xetex with the i-installer didn't get them in place,  
>> eventhough -- like in the first run -- no errors were reported.
>>
>>
>
> I can confirm too!
>
> Doing a 'sudo fmtutil-sys --missing' creates xelatex.fmt.  
> (xetex.fmt is never created.)
>
> I think the simple update to the install script could be to check  
> the existence of fmtutil-sys. If fmtutil-sys exists, then it has to  
> be used. (Since XeTeX is installed system-wide only.)
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.
>

I did sudo fmtutil --fmtdir /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c  
--all but I suppose --missing would have worked. This was after I  
edited /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/fmtutil.cnf to  
uncomment xetex. Not sure why it was commented. I know I enabled it  
during install.
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