On Mar 4 17:49, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Ken Brown wrote: > >I think fmtutil creates the files in a temporary directory (using TMPDIR, > >TEMP, or TMP if they exist) and then mv's them. Could this be your problem? > >What happens if you unset those variables before installing texlive? > > It is some time that my Cygwin installation does not set those > variables any more, and indeed they are all EMPTY.. Perhaps is the > TL installation process that sets them, at least temporary. And if > so, why that does not occur with 1.7.7? Why not with other files > under TL installed tree?
Since fmtutil-sys is apparently the core of the problem, and given my total lack of knowledge about the Tex/Latex system, is there any simple call to fmtutil-sys with which I can reproduce the problem without having to install texlive? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple