On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, David Van Horn wrote:
>
> I've been trying to get TeX setup on my machine and with no luck. I am using
> Cygwin, which comes with the executables needed to compose with TeX and its
> friends, but a suitable (teTeX) TeX Directory Structure (TDS) MUST be
> installed. So, I installed the teTex TDS.
>
> Now I try this [below] and all the search paths look correct, but the format
> builds fail and I can't figure out how to fix it. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> $ texconfig confall
> ...
> texpool: .:/usr/share/texmf/web2c
> ...
>
> $ texconfig rehash
> mktexlsr: Done.
>
> $ texconfig init
> Running mf to create plain base ...
> ! mf.pool doesn't match; tangle me again (or fix the path).
> Done.
>
> ...
You have to install the cygwin tar-ball over the tetex-texmf tree to get
the correct pool-files in place.
Jochen