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

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Javier Ruiz Hidalgo <jrh@gps.tsc.upc.es> writes:

> TeX should be able to compile the same document on different
> platforms so should be doing that on different linux distributions
> ¿don't you think so? ;-)

Yes, except when the document is wrong.

I've tried it on a redhat box and the reason that graphicx doesn't
abort is that it reports 

Package graphics Warning: pdftex option does not work with standard TeX.

Newer version of pdftex.def don't check things the same way and latex
ends up aborting when it loads supp-pdf.tex.

There's no reason to use the [pdftex] option when using dvipdfm, and
I'm certain that it will cause things down the line not to work.  Use
the [dvipdfm] option to graphicx (and any other packages you'd
formerly use the pdftex option, like hyperref).

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