Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> schrieb:

> From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
> Subject: Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 19:39:52 +0200
>
> Hi all,
>
>> Before we were calling fmtutil --all twice. I guess this was done
>> with intention. Shouldn't we keep that? Or do you think, that this is
>> a bug in fmtutil, like mentioned in your second mail:
>
> Yes, calling fmtutil twice is intentional.  A failure with
> "I'm stymied" message has been occured with jadetex fairy
> often and it can be fixed with the next (the second time)
> call of fmtutil.  
>
> I have failed to find out the reason why it failed at first run 
> of fmtutil but at least calling fmtutil twice has been a simple
> fix of this problem.

Do you remember any bug numbers/titles? I would like to have a look at
this.

I think it is a bug in fmtutil if it does not detect all errors - and
it's probably a bug (or should I say misfeature...) in TeX if it
produces an error message without a line that matches ^!.

Also, I would prefer to fix the reason why it isn't generated correctly
in the first place.

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