Bug#93004: tetex-base: pdftex option in graphicx package doesn't latex-compile

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Javier Ruiz writes:
 > Package: tetex-base Version: 1.0.2+20000804-7 Severity: normal
 > 
 > 
 > 	Using option [pdftex] within the graphicx package fails to
 > latex-compile any document (even simple articles with no figures). The
 > output of the error is somehow cryptic:
 > 
 > 	> latex simple
 > 	>
 > 	> ...
 > 	> ...
 > 	>
 > 	> ! Undefined control sequence.
 >         > <write> \m!systems 
 >         >            : Why not use pdf(e)TeX binaries?
 >         > l.59 ...!systems}{Why not use pdf(e)TeX binaries?}

So, why don't you use pdflatex as suggested by the error message?

 > Tried the same simple document on other computers (redhat systems) with
 > no such an error :-(

Don't know what they have different.

C