This is fedora 14 using texlive 2010 package from Jindrich Novy <jn...@redhat.com>
checking for a Latex2e program... +checking for "latex"... yes checking for a DVI postprocessing program... +checking for "pplatex"... no checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX... +checking for "platex"... yes kpathsea: Running mktexfmt platex.fmt kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt Latex not usable (not LaTeX2e) What's the deal? latex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2011/dev) restricted \write18 enabled. **