On 23/08/10 18:01, Pierre Lorenzon wrote: > > Hi > > First I don't understand why my mail comes so late on the list > since I posted it a few days ago. But anyway .. > > From: Andrew Benton<[email protected]> >> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdftex.fmt >> I can't find the format file `pdftex.fmt'! > > Hum ! I can't find ! When you see something like that first > try texhash before anything else. The TeX system maintains > its own database to locate the components of the system and > the tool designed to update this database is precisely > texhash. If you use the automated procedure to install > texlive, Ie. the script provided with the distribution that > installs precompiled tools, texhash is run automatically. But > if you compile the whole stuff from scratch , it might be > that texhash has not been run and then that the database is > outofdate. Even if my system is an lfs where I built > everything the exception is texlive for which I installed the > precompiled stuff that works perfectly. > I ran texhash, it got me past a previous error (I forget the details) but it didn't help with the pdftex.fmt problem because the file did not exist.
> OK ! I suspect in fact that your problem is not very serious > ! Simply this question of database I mentioned above. Anyway > I should confess that I never compiled texlive. I think that's where I went wrong, the source code is not fit for public consumption. All the people who have tried to help suggest I install precompiled binaries of one sort or another and that's not my style. I don't need to use Latex, I was just interested to learn more about it, but not interested enough to install precompiled binaries. >> Do you know how to create the pdftex.fmt file it is looking for? > > Hum ! I suspect that you do not have to create it. As I said > it is probably present but not yet findable by the compiler. > No, it's trivial to use find to search for a file. It did not exist. > Are the steps describing compilation, installation and > particularly CONFIGURATION (the point we are interested in) > of texlive well documented ? No. > Do you absolutely need to > recompile this system or won't it be simpler to install the > precompiled package. I know that it is not really the lfs > mind to install precompiled things. Anyway doing this way you > could work a little bit with LaTeX and make your own opinion > if it is useful or not for you. Once you'll be convinced that > this tool is suitable for you you might make big efforts to > compile it. But I am not sure that recompiling the TeX > compiler will greatly improve its performances. I've had quite enough frustration with Latex for now. Thanks for your help. I'm sorry there was a delay with your mail getting through to the list. If it had arrived a week ago I might have still had some enthusiasm left for the problem. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
