Hi Ricardo,
Thank you so much for the detailed step by step progress and the deep
investigation.
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 21:51, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote:
> ;; XXX: We can't build all formats at this point, nor are
> they
> ;; part of the LaTeX base, so we disable them. Actually, we
> ;; should be running this all in a profile hook, so that only
> ;; selected formats and hyphenation patterns are included,
> but it
> ;; takes long and TeX Live isn't designed to be modular like
> ;; that. Everything operates on a shared directory, which we
> ;; would only have at profile generation time.
> (let ((disabled-formats
> '("aleph aleph" "lamed aleph" "uptex uptex" "euptex
> euptex"
> "eptex eptex" "ptex ptex" "pdfxmltex pdftex"
> "platex eptex"
> "csplain pdftex" "mf mf-nowin" "mex pdftex" "pdfmex
> pdftex"
> "luacsplain luatex"
> "cont-en xetex" "cont-en pdftex" "pdfcsplain xetex"
> "pdfcsplain pdftex" "pdfcsplain luatex" "cslatex
> pdftex"
> "mptopdf pdftex" "uplatex euptex" "jadetex pdftex"
> "amstex pdftex" "pdfcslatex pdftex" "lollipop tex"
> "xmltex pdftex" "pdfjadetex pdftex" "eplain pdftex"
> "texsis pdftex" "mltex pdftex" "utf8mex pdftex")))
[...]
> I suspect that the build environment doesn’t have locales set up so the
> format dumping tool assumes that we want to us Latin-1 encoding for
> everything. (Roughly speaking, the fmt files are like dumped Lisp
> images as I understand it.)
I am totally naive here. Is it not one of these disabled formats
which should not be?
Cheers,
simon
