Look into texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl this is the authorize source.
LG Norbert -- DI Dr Norbert Preining https://www.preining.info arXiv + IFMGA Guide + TeX Live GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 11 Oct 2026 20:11:20 Hilmar Preusse <[email protected]>: > On 10/11/26 7:30 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Oct 2026, Hilmar Preuße wrote: > > Hi, > >>> This script calls iniTeX for all or added format files. This may take some >>> time... >> I have implemented parallel execution of fmtutil calls recently, so if >> you make a new checkout, you can call >> fmtutil-sys --parallel=auto --all >> which runs with # of CPU/cores, but max 8, in parallel. >> Experiments have shown a drastic drop in run time. >> > > Thanks for heads up. I checked "svn log > ./texk/texlive/linked_scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl" in the TL SVN trunk, but > didn't find anything. What did I miss? > >>> fmtutil itself does no provide a progress bar nor does it display each >>> iniTeX call one by one. And not, I'm not really willing to implement that. >> Well, that is not true. We^WYou (I am not Debian anymore) capture the >> output and only show it when fmtutil builds fail. And there the command >> line is shown >> $ fmtutil-sys --all >> ... > > Of course you are right. We redirect that to a log file, which IMHO does make > more sense. We could use some tee(1) and just display "running `aleph -ini.." > calls, but if the execution time drops by parallel processing, probably > nobody will ask any more. > > Hilmar
