Bug#64470: pdflatex: I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
Denis Barbier writes:
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 06:53:42PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > > > Just had another look at fmtutil and fmtutil.cnf. It seems that
> > > > fmtutil will die when it hits the first format which cannot be
> > > > generated. Good job tex/latex come first....
> > > >
> > > > We really ought to get fmtutil to try to generate *all* of the
> > > > requested formats, even if some of them fail. I'll write a patch if
> > > > that's useful....
> > >
> > > I disagree, `fmtutil --all' try to generate all formats.
> >
> > I don't understand what you mean.
>
> Indeed i was wrong, sorry.
>
> [...]
> > I don't think this behaviour is very good. Have an appropriate exit
> > message and error message, but at least try the other formats....
>
> Agree, and a patch is fairly simple, because run_initex is called from 2
> functions only. Such a patch is useful, and should be reported to upstream
> author too.
Did anyone try to work on a patch for that?
Christoph
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