[tex-live] pdftex failed

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2013-04-24 at 10:51:42 +0000, Xinrong Ma wrote:

 > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/W32TeX)
 >  restricted \write18 enabled.
 > ---! c:/Users/tom/.texlive2013/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt doesn't
 > match pdftex.pool
 > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

Why does a recent version of pdfTeX look for a .pool file at all?
Strings are compiled into the binaries for years and thus tere are no
.pool files anymore.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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