[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] new teTeX

[Viktor H. <vh...@ri...>]

David R. Morrison writes:
 > I've updated the new teTeX packages to version 2.0-2,
 > repairing some of the problems which the early testers have
 > pointed out (either on these lists, or privately).  Thanks for
 > helping to test!
 > 
 > Please note that the old "bundle-tetex" package is now
 > obsolete (along with 11 other packages: carlisle, context,
 > dvipdfm, epstopdfm, hyperref, natbib, oberdiek, pdftex,
 > revtex, seminar, and tetex-macosx).  Once everything has been
 > moved to the stable tree, the obsolete packages will be
 > deleted; in the meantime, you don't need to install them if
 > you update your teTeX.

David,

I depended on pdflatex to build the PDF documentation for Doxygen
(a documentation utility that I use to document source code; it's
available through fink, but I'm building it myself as I want more
recent versions of it than Fink provides).

Under the old packages, with tetex-macosx installed, it used to
build fine.

After upgrading to the new version, pdflatex doesn't seem to work
properly. This is the error I get back from the make file at the
point it attempts to use pdflatex:

 > echo "Running latex..."
 > Running latex...
 > pdflatex doxygen_manual.tex 
 > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10a (Web2C 7.4.5)
 > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
 > fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
 > I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
 > make: *** [doxygen_manual.pdf] Error 1

Unfortunately, I don't know very much at all about TeTex, and so
I don't know what's really going on here.

I've tried to find 'fmutil.cnf' in the /sw/... tree, and cannot.

I've found 'pdlatex.fmt' in /sw/share/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt.

Accordingly, I'm confused as to why pdflatex cannot find it's
fmt file...

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