Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 25.05.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:

Hi all,

> It's a little harder with the fmtutil call: Currently, we grep
> through the tempfile for the "I'm stymied" message, and run ftmutil
> again if we encounter it. So the code needs 5 minutes more of
> thinking (which I didn't have yet).
> 
How about:

TEMPFILE=`tempfile -p tex`
echo "Running initex. This may take some time. ..."
$TEXINIT_P > $TEMPFILE
$TEXLINKS_P >> $TEMPFILE
flag=`grep stymied $TEMPFILE` || true
if [ X"$flag" != X ]; then
  echo "#####"
  echo "Failed to generate some FMT so try once again!"
  echo "#####Failed to generate some FMT so try once again!" >> $TEMPFILE
  if fmtutil --all >> $TEMPFILE; then
    rm $TEMPFILE
  else
    echo; echo "Something went wrong. Output of initex is in $TEMPFILE."
    echo "Please post the content when reporting a bug."
  fi
else
  rm $TEMPFILE
fi

Remarks: - Are there some other kinds of failing, beside having a
"stymied" string in the log file. Perhaps we should generally
checking the exit status of fmtutil instead of grep'ing for a string.
- The second rm can be fatal, if there there was no stymied string in
the log file, but fmtutil nevertheless failed.

H. 
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