Oliver Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: tetex-base > Version: 3.0-19 > Severity: normal > > > Due to some problems on my machine I had to install tetex-bin manually > with dpkg -i tetex-bin_... . During the configure step I got the error > that some of the formats can't be built. In the refered file in /tmp I > found the following lines: > > fmtutil: running `pdfetex -ini -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex > -translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini' ... > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX) > (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/web2c/cp227.tcx) > entering extended mode > (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/amstex/config/amstex.ini > (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex) > (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/plain/base/plain.tex > Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts, more > fonts, > macros, math definitions, output routines, hyphenation > (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)) (/usr/bin/amstex > ! Text line contains an invalid character.
Strange that it says "(/usr/bin/amstex", on my system it's "(./amstex". But anyway. > The reason for this is that I started the dpkg job in /usr/bin , so that > the amstex binary was included instead of the amstex-TeX-file. > > Please make sure that pdfetex is started in a proper directory (e.g. > the direcorty of all the templates) despite of the directory dpkg is > started. Using apt-get -f install to configure tetex-base on the other > hand works normally. Hm, I don't think this makes sense, or is even doable. It's a feature that TeX reads files in the current directory - a feature that can also be used for generating customized formats. On the other hand it (the feature) probably doesn't make any sense in the post-installation script. We could fix this by changing directory to / or /tmp. But we cannot be sure that there isn't a file "amstex" in any of these directories. I think it isn't unreasonable to expect that someone wants to create a file "amstex" in /tmp, for whatever reason. But I can't think of a reason to change directory to /usr/bin. Why did you do it? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
