[tex-live] failure of amstex installation on x84_64-darwin

tljack at forallx.net tljack at forallx.net
Sat Jan 12 22:35:16 CET 2013


I installed TeXLive x86_64-darwin on Mountain Lion.  I do not use the
MacTeX distro.

When I try to install amstex with tlmgr, I get the following stuff
that I didn't see when I used universal-darwin:

tlmgr: package repository http://ctan.math.utah.edu/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
[1/2, ??:??/??:??] install: amstex.x86_64-darwin [1k]
[2/2, 00:00/00:00] install: amstex [38k]
tlmgr: package log updated at /tl/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
running mktexlsr ...
done running mktexlsr.
regenerating fmtutil.cnf in /tl/texmf-var
running fmtutil-sys --byfmt amstex ...

fmtutil-sys --byfmt amstex failed (status 1), output:
fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini' ...
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012) (INITEX)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 (/tl/texmf/web2c/cp227.tcx)
entering extended mode
(/tl/texmf-dist/tex/amstex/config/amstex.ini
(/tl/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/plain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes,
registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts, macros, math definitions,
output routines, hyphenation (/tl/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex))
(/tl/bin/x86_64-darwin/amstex
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>
                $
<to be read again>
                   ^^A
l.1 Ïúíþ^^G^^@^^@^^A
                    ^^C^^@^^@€^^B^^@^^@^^@^^L^^@^^@^^@^^X^^H^^@^^@
€^^A^^@^^...

?
! Emergency stop.
<inserted text>
                $
<to be read again>
                   ^^A
l.1 Ïúíþ^^G^^@^^@^^A
                    ^^C^^@^^@€^^B^^@^^@^^@^^L^^@^^@^^@^^X^^H^^@^^@
€^^A^^@^^...

No pages of output.
Transcript written on amstex.log.
Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini' failed

###############################################################################
fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
  /tl/texmf-var/web2c
for details.
###############################################################################

This is a summary of all `failed' messages:
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini' failed

tlmgr: exiting unsuccessfully (status 1).


But there is no log file there about amstex!

Cheers,
-- Jack


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