On 2012-10-31, Paul A Rubin wrote:
> Guenter Milde <milde <at> users.sf.net> writes:
>> How does lyx test the latex version
...
> Try putting the following in a text file naed chklatex.ltx someplace
> convenient (like your desktop):
> \nonstopmode\makeatletter
> \ifx\undefined\documentclass\else
> \message{ThisIsLaTeX2e}
> \fi
> \@@end
> Open a shell there and run latex against that file. You should get a message
> in the shell (stdout) containing ThisIsLaTeX2e. If not, perhaps you can
> figure out what failed.
Thanks for this tip. Indeed there was a hidden problem, running the file
resulted in:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
restricted \write18 enabled.
---! /home/milde/.texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
After removing the offending file (actually all contents of ~/texmf-var), the
configuration ran smootly.
Thanks,
Günter
