[tex-live] how to find out what went wrong with fmtutil?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 12 Jan 2007, at 8:03 pm, Karl Berry wrote:

>     | Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex
>     -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdftex.ini' failed
>
> On line 727 there was a
>  | sed 1q
>
> Delete it.  (r3392 in repo.)  It's a long story.

OK, here's an alternative patch to restrict mktexfmt to echoing a  
single filename. This seems like it should avoid other breakage, by  
suppressing the echo altogether for any subsequent files, rather than  
trying to add a pipe operation. Seems to work for me in all cases  
tested so far:

===================================================================
--- fmtutil    (revision 3414)
+++ fmtutil    (working copy)
@@ -362,9 +362,10 @@
    tmpdir=${TMPDIR-${TEMP-${TMP-/tmp}}}/$progname.$$
    verboseFlag=true
-  # mktexfmtMode: if called as mktexfmt, set to true. Will echo the  
generated
+  # mktexfmtMode: if called as mktexfmt, set to true. Will echo the  
first generated
    # filename after successful generation to stdout then (and  
nothing else).
    mktexfmtMode=false
+  mktexfmtFirst=true
    case $argv0 in
      mktexfmt|*/mktexfmt)
        mktexfmtMode=true
@@ -699,7 +700,7 @@
      mv "$format.log" "$fulldestdir/$format.log" </dev/null
      if mv "$fmtfile" "$fulldestdir/$fmtfile" </dev/null; then
        verboseMsg "$progname: $fulldestdir/$fmtfile installed."
-      $mktexfmtMode && echo "$fulldestdir/$fmtfile"
+      $mktexfmtMode && $mktexfmtFirst && echo "$fulldestdir/ 
$fmtfile" && mktexfmtFirst=false
        mktexupd "$fulldestdir" "$fmtfile"
      fi
    else
===================================================================

Do you see anything risky about this version?

JK