Re: tetex-base: Why does it depend on texinfo?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Thomas, hi pretesters,

with our Debian packages we just found out that not all formats that are
listed in fmtutil.cnf can be build. This was tested with 2.96.1, of
course, I didn't know of the newest beta.

Some formats are not tried to build (not available, that's o.k.). The
following are tried to build, but fail:

mex-pl, pdfmex-pl

[@Hilmar: cont-cz is built (as opposed to tetex-2.0.2 on Debian)]

Error messages:

fmtutil: attempting to create localized format using pool=tex-pl and tcx=il2-pl.
running `pdfetex -ini  -translate-file=il2-pl -jobname=mex-pl -progname=mex-pl *mex.ini' ...
! pdfetex.pool doesn't match; tangle me again (or fix the path).
Error: `pdfetex -ini -translate-file=il2-pl -jobname=mex-pl -progname=mex-pl *mex.ini' failed


fmtutil: attempting to create localized format using pool=pdftex-pl and tcx=il2-pl.
running `pdfetex -ini  -translate-file=il2-pl -jobname=pdfmex-pl -progname=pdfmex-pl *pdfmex.ini' ...
! pdfetex.pool doesn't match; tangle me again (or fix the path).
Error: `pdfetex -ini -translate-file=il2-pl -jobname=pdfmex-pl -progname=pdfmex-pl *pdfmex.ini' failed


Furthermore, aleph is rebuild every time "fmtutil --missing" is called,
but builds successfully every time (according to the log messages, and
according to

alhambra:/# aleph
This is Aleph, Version 3.14159--1.15--2.1 (RC2) (Web2C 7.5.2)
Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force
**\bye
entering extended mode
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.
alhambra:/# 
)

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie