Re: Bug#253098: fix to jadetex based on tetex changes
On 11.08.04 Adam Di Carlo (aph@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> writes:
Hi,
> > The next TeX Live and the next teTeX will not have the Knuth
> > compiler at all.
>
> Well, rather than calling it 'etex', at that point, it would just be
> the 'tex' command, right?
>
Yes. At this time all formats will be build by pdfetex except plain
TeX. So all formats will be eformats, except tex.fmt. The statement
above "will not have the Knuth compiler at all" is not true for
TeX Live beta. Sorry! Dunno about final, as it's not released.
> > Sorry for that! We didn't notice, that jadetex explicitly checks
> > for the existence of special formats in post* ....
>
> Special formats? I simply check that the memory dumps are generated,
> and that memory dumps for any required packages are present.
> In a nutshell:
>
> kpsewhich latex.fmt
> kpsewhich pdftex.fmt
> kpsewhich pdflatex.fmt
>
> Is there anything wrong or buggy in doing this?
>
I have no clue, why you do that at all. AFAICS jadetex depends on
tetex-bin. It won't configure until tetex-bin has the state ii. If
this is the case you have a working teTeX system^1 and all formats to
run TeX, LaTeX etc. do exist. Independent of if they are called
latex.fmt or latex.efmt.
What am I missing? Do you really need latex.fmt? I think, we'll
create it again in next release (I'm afraid that won't happen before
next week).
> Unless the tetex maintainers tell me I really ought to change from
> tex to etex at this point in the freeze, I'd rather leave it as it
> is.
>
OK, your decision. I can can only give you the advise to do so.
H.
^1 If fmtutil --all fails tetex-bin won't configure
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