On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 08:22:52PM -0400, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > On Aug 28, 2014, at 7:51 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What? It's about as "transient" as a .dylib; it's a compiled TeX "library". > > It ought to be generated when you build the port, installed with it, and > > kept around thereafter. > > Perhaps I misused that word. I do have a "pdftex.fmt" installed, but it's not > registered to a port. This suggests that it is generated or moved into place > after the destroot phase.
Specifically, fmt files are compiled in the post-activate phase of texlive ports (and removed in post-deactivate). They need to be regenerated whenever the installed languages change, so they can't be directly associated with the port. Dan -- Dan R. K. Ports UW CSE http://drkp.net/ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
