Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Lost /bin/latex? References: Organization: Jan at Appel From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:56:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Igor Pechtchanski's message of "Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:29:20 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: <874rcezelz.fsf@peder.flower> Lines: 48 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Igor Pechtchanski writes: > Thanks, I realized it's a symbolic link shortly after I sent the message. Ok. > However, something did go wrong with the installation. I ended up with > invalid symbolic links in /bin (e.g., /usr/bin/initex was a symbolic link > to "bin/tex.exe"). Yes, that is correct. Oh, wait a minute, to bin/tex.exe you say. That bug has just been fixed by the new release (20020911-1), that was uploaded yesterday just after you posted your message, so I assumed you already got the new release. Could you try upgrading? > Also, any attempt to run latex failed with a '(Fatal format file > error; I'm stymied)'. > > This was still a problem after I completely uninstalled and reinstalled > the tetex packages (tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-extra, tetex, and > libkpathsea3). > Running 'texconfig confall; texconfig rehash; texconfig init; texconfig > dvips printcmd -' fixed the 'Fatal error' problem, This is all very strange. Did you install using setup.exe? I'm sure you know that these commands are run (and must be run) during postinstall. > but the invalid symbolic links are still there. What links do you think are invalid? If it's serious, I might have to make a new release. > This sequence of texconfig commands is, for some reason, commented > out from the /etc/postinstall/post-tetex.sh, but is present in > /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh, and I assume has been run (there is > no log of the postinstall script invocations, is there?). post-tetex.sh is something very old. post-texmf.sh should have been run. If it has, it gets renamed to post-texm.sh.done. The setup log should mention running it, but there is no log, or failure indication during the run of setup.exe if anything goes wrong, afaik. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/