severity 302827 serious thanks Hi all,
Matthijs Mohlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: tetex-bin > Version: 2.0.2-27 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > tetex-bin could not be installed on several architectures including: > mipsel, s390, alpha and powerpc. See for example this buildd log: > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=pdns&ver=2.9.17-8&arch=powerpc&stamp=1112391358&file=log&as=raw The format that fails to build is in fact jadetex. I suspected that there is an error in the patch I provided, however things are not so easy: I have (again today) tested to install jadetex, and Okura has probably done the same. Furthermore, it fails in a very strange way: Generating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... Creating config file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf with new version done Generating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ... done Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg ... done Running initex. This may take some time. ... kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.efmt running `tex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' ... This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (INITEX) [...] Beginning to dump on file latex.fmt (format=latex 2005.4.1) [...] No pages of output. Transcript written on latex.log. fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt installed. Error: `etex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' failed kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.efmt running `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini' ... This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b (Web2C 7.4.5) (INITEX) First of all, it seems that the order of output is mangled (because of redirections?). But also what happens is not easy to understand. Although we are redirecting stdout to a file, we get the complete output from an attempt to create latex.efmt. However, in fact it creates latex.fmt with tex, not latex.efmt with etex. After that, we get an error that creation of jadetex.fmt failed, and once more after this we see kpathsea trying to create pdflatex.fmt. Then there's fmtutil: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt installed. Error: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex &pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini' failed I have to leave at once, not finishing my analysis. But since I won't have much time the next days, I think I should share these thoughts with others -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
