> So I simply copied /root/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/* /var/lib/texmf/web2c/
> "texexec new.tex" seems to run OK now, without error.
> I'll investigate further.
You run texexec as root, I'm guessing, so that the formats will be
visible to all users. However, that means they go into root's
.texmf-var/ directory because the TEXFORMATS kpse variable contains
the home-directory .texmf-var before /var/lib/texmf. Here's how to
check:
$ kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXFORMATS'
.:/home/sanjoy/.texmf-var/web2c:/home/sanjoy/texmf/web2c:/var/lib/texmf/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf-tetex/web2c
Yup, ~/.texmf-var/web2c comes first.
That's due to these lines in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf, at least on my
Ubuntu (teTeX 3.0) system:
TEXMF =
{$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFDIST}
TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}
The TEXMFVAR is short for $HOME/.texmf-var and is what means the
formats go in /root/.texmf-var/. So, you need to change TEXFORMATS
for the texexec run, telling it to place them in /var/lib/texmf:
# TEXFORMATS='/var/lib/texmf/web2c/{$engine,}' texexec --make --all
Or slightly more general, in case TEXMFSYSVAR changes someday from
/var/lib/texmf (note all the horrid quoting):
# TEXFORMATS=`kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMFSYSVAR'`'/web2c/{$engine,}' \
texexec --make --all
I just tried it as root, and it seemed to work -- I got brand-new
formats in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex:
# ls /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/*.fmt
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/cont-nl.fmt
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/mptopdf.fmt
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt
> # for f in `kpsewhere -engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt`; do ls -l ${f}; done
Or slightly simpler (using -U to preserve the order produced by
kpsewhere):
# ls -lU `kpsewhere -engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt`
or
# kpsewhere -engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt | xargs ls -Ul
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
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