[XeTeX] xelatex.fmt not found after update

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.10.2005 um 01:31 schrieb Herbert Schulz:

> Check to see if the xetex.fmt and xelatex.fmt files, etc., are now in 
> ~/Library/texmf/web2c/ rather than the ``global'' 
> .../texmf.local/web2c/. If the formats are in your personal branch of 
> the TDS then you should use fmtutil-sys rather than fmtutil.
>

Hello Herb!

This doesn't seem to happen! Making of formats in the *EXPERIMENTAL* 
teTeX seems to fail completely. A reason can be the many fmtutil.cnf 
files:

-rw-r--r--  1 root  Admin  4947 30 Sep 12:57 
/Users/Admin/Library/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  admin  4944  6 Okt 23:53 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  admin  4971  7 Okt 00:14 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

The first one was created when I did a 'private' install. The second 
one was created by the recent TeX i-Package (could be changed by the 
ConTeXt beta updater too), and the last one is most probably from the 
XeTeX i-Package. And this seems to be the culprit! It's obviously 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/fmtutil.cnf which is now used 
to record which formats need to be created, but the XeTeX i-Package 
records its needs (still) in 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf!

Editing /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/fmtutil.cnf to get 
xetex uncommented, made 'sudo fmtutil-sys --missing' create xetex.fmt 
in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c finally. Jon's editing step 
is the right one to correct the /old/ (still recent?) XeTeX i-Package 
in the new *EXPERIMENTAL* environment. Plus invoking 'sudo fmtutil-sys 
--missing'.

--
Greetings

   Pete

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