"Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <jannekeATgnuDOTorg> wrote:
> What config files did you have to remove? It would be nice to
> check for those in the postinstall script.
First (ref. messages 943, 789), I suspect now I was in error in
saying that removing config files fixed the problem. In fact I
nuked a whole '$TEXMFLOCAL/web2c' directory; I suspect now that
the operative change was removing '$TEXMFLOCAL/web2c/latex.fmt'.
On the other hand, at some earlier point (ref. messages 789,
769), teTeX 3 had installed a set of tex-generated (therefore
pdfetex- incompatible) format files in '$TEXMFVAR'. Maybe stale
config files contributed to that; I couldn't really say.
> I'd be interested to learn what exactly did not work, or what
> fixed it.
The story goes like this:
* Upgrade from teTeX 2 to teTeX 3.0.0-[12]. Can't LaTeX anything.
Observe that the old '$TEXMFMAIN/web2c/texmf.cnf' file is out of
date (and that the new 'texmf.cnf.cygwin-*' is much improved).
Replace the old with the new. Problem is gone.
* Upgrade from teTex 3.0.0-[12] to teTeX 3.0.0-3. Can't LaTeX
anything. On Jan Nieuwenhuizen's advice, remove
'$TEXMFVAR/web2c/latex.fmt'; now the operative LaTeX format file
is '$TEXMFLOCAL/web2c/latex.fmt'. Still can't LaTeX anything.
After much threshing around, remove 'web2c/latex.fmt' (and all
the rest of 'web2c', and all '*/config' directories) from
'$TEXMFLOCAL' and reinstall teTeX. Problem is gone.
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