Bug#279042: Bug#273789: tetex-base: fmtutil.cnf not found

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 08.11.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Thomas Heimroth <theimrot@gmx.de> schrieb:

Hello *!

> >> Does an strace over the xdvi.bin binary tell you more?
> 
> strace is a program that records ("traces") all the calls to system
> functions, all file openings etc. that a command initiates, and writes
> them to stderr, or to a file. Writing to a file is usually much
> better. You would therefore use
> 
> strace -o xdvi.trace xdvi $irgendeine-dvi-Datei.dvi
> 
> (or simply
> 
> strace -o xdvi.trace xdvi
> 
I wouldn't do it that way. There is the shell program, which sets
some ENV variables IIRC. I think it's a better idea to copy
/usr/bin/xdvi into the home dir, edit it appropriatly and then call
it typing "./xdvi filename".

The first means replace line 75 by

exec strace -o xdvi.trace xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT $args "$filename" || exit 1

and line 77 by

exec strace -o xdvi.trace xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT $args || exit 1

H.
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