Hi everybody, some formats depend on existing formats, mostly on latex.fmt, and load the file when they are generated. Currently, when all formats are created with "fmtutil(-sys) --all", this means that latex.fmt (or whatever) will be generated twice. The reason is that first latex.fmt is generated, but it's lying in the temporary directory and not found by kpathsea. When it comes to jadetex.fmt, latex.fmt is not found, mktexfmt is called, latex.fmt is put into TEXMF(SYS)VAR, and jadetex.fmt is created. When all is finished, the first latex.fmt is moved to TEXMFSYSVAR.
The problem with that is not only that latex.fmt is generated twice, which just takes some time. More annoying is the fact that in such a case, fmtutil-sys --all >/dev/null spits out the TeX output of the second generation of latex.fmt on the terminal (because mktexfmt is supposed to only echo the generated filename on stdout). fmtutil sets and exports TEXINPUTS="$tmpdir:$TEXINPUTS", but that is not sufficient. One has to set TEXFORMATS, too. I therefore suggest the following patch, based on teTeX-3.0's version: --- texk/tetex/fmtutil 2006-03-02 10:48:46.000000000 +0100 +++ texk/tetex/fmtutil.new 2006-03-02 10:48:21.000000000 +0100 @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ ############################################################################### # program history: +# Do Mar 02 10:42:31 CET 2006 add tmpdir to TEXFORMATS # Sa Jan 15 18:13:46 CET 2005 avoid multiple variable assignments in one statement # Di Jan 11 11:42:36 CET 2005 fix --byhyphen with relative hyphenfile # Fr Dez 31 16:51:29 CET 2004 option catcfg added (for being called by texconfig) @@ -519,6 +520,10 @@ # due to KPSE_DOT, we don't search the current directory, so include # it explicitly for formats that \write and later on \read TEXINPUTS="$tmpdir:$TEXINPUTS"; export TEXINPUTS + # for formats that load other formats (e.g. jadetex loads latex.fmt), + # add the current directory to TEXFORMATS, too. We could do the same for + # MFBASES and MPMEMS, but it doesn't seem to be necessary currently. + TEXFORMATS="$tmpdir:$TEXFORMATS"; export TEXFORMATS setupTmpDir cd "$tmpdir" || { Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)