[tex-live] Re: pdfeTeX as the only engine

Thomas Esser te at dbs.uni-hannover.de
Thu Jan 15 06:38:02 CET 2004


> I recall that Pawel Jackowski reported that many times: he wanted to build
> any special XXX.efmt, but failed since pdftex.cfg was not found.

Just answering this point: pdftex.cfg is no longer searched using
TEXINPUTS, and has its own search path:
  PDFTEXCONFIG = .;$TEXMF/pdftex/{$progname,}//
which no longer depends on the right something.$progname setting in
texmf.cnf.

Thomas


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