[tex-live] Dead cycle occure when run fmtutil-sys --all under windows.

hongyi.zhao hongyi.zhao at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 06:13:00 CEST 2008


>On Di, 05 Aug 2008, hongyi.zhao wrote:
>> When I run mtutil-sys --all, the command looks run ceaseless and dead cycle occured, who can give me some hints?
>
>Bummer ... could that be the jadetex/latex/jadetex/latex/jadetex/latex
>format creation cycle???   
>
>We had that in Debian in 2007 AFAIR. Frank hacked together some patches
>to fmtutil-sys, but I am not sure.
>
>The problem is that:
>- jadetex should be built before latex
>- jadetex asks for the latex format
>- latex format is built but saved into a non searched place
>- jadetex is tried again, again building latex
>- latex format is built but saved into a non searched place
>- jadetex is tried again, again building latex
>- latex format is built but saved into a non searched place
>...
>
>you got the point. 
>
>Karl, Jonathan, everyone with fmtutil mastery, can we fix that please?
>
>Zhao, can you please send a log file of that problem?

The logfile is very big due to dead cycle occure, so only part of it is posted here in the attachment.


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Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao at gmail.com> 
Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Science
2008-08-06
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