On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:10:29 +0200 "R. Bastian" <rbast...@free.fr> scribit:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:55:56 +0200 > "R. Bastian" <rbast...@free.fr> scribit: > > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:26:40 -0400 (EDT) > > Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> scribit: > > > > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, R. Bastian wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I am new on this list. I use pftex and would use ConTeXt installed with > > > > texlive/2007. > > > > > > > > 'ruby' and 'pdftex' work fine, but 'texexec' (texexec.rb "$@") is very > > > > slow. > > > > > > > > Where con I get the doc or what shall I do ? > > > > > > I do not know if this is related or not...but > > > > > > Occasionally I also find that texexec is extremely slow. (Takes about a > > > minute to initiate and then runs fine). This happens, when my internet > > > connection is in a bad state (which means that ping to a server also time > > > out). In that situation texmfstart takes ages to get a response from drb. > > > Whenever I kill the process by ^C, the interupt is in the call to drb. I > > > do not remember the exact interupt message, but I will try to get more > > > information when this happens the next time. If I avoid texmfstart, ie, > > > run ruby $TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb directly, it runs > > > fine. > > > > > > Aditya > > > > > > "ruby $TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb <texfile>" > > > > Haha ! with this tip I get an error message from 'pdftex' : > > libstdc++.so.5 ... No such file ... > > > > The libstdc++6 is installed. What can I do ? > > > I installed libstdc++5 - now pdftex complains "cant find ... 'cont-en.fmt' " > i dont know if it is of interest for you: - I switched back to TL2007 (now pdftex finds 'cont-en') - texexec source.tex compiles 3 min 14 sec for 1 page of pdf - pdftex -fmt cont-en compiles 1 sec and produces a dvi file Thanks for your help. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
