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pdftex 1.40.1 sets engine=pdftex (not pdfetex), but texexec puts created formats into web2c/pdfetex, so they won't be found as soon as we have pdftex >= 1.40 around.
Indeed. See the appended email from ntg-context. I don't see how to
fix the problem, except for the symlink hack that I'm doing now.
Several solutions don't work:
1. Remove all traces of pdfetex etc. -- because parallel installations
(e.g. tetex or texlive) might use an older pdf(e)tex and need to
run pdfetex explicitly to get the extensions.
2. Put the formats in web2c/pdftex/ and pass --engine=pdftex to
texexec, because it (last I tested) looks in web2c/pdfetex/ anyway.
So I haven't found anything better than symlinking web2c/pdftex ->
web2c/pdfetex. TL2006 is oblivious to the symlink because it doesn't
use the $engine subpath.
TeX path searching is a nightmare!
-Sanjoy
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:08:25 GMT
From: Sanjoy Mahajan
"texexec --make --all" puts the formats in the subdirectory "pdfetex" but I think it should be "pdftex" now.
If 'now' means with pdftex 1.40.0, I think you're right. But that would break context with earlier pdftex's. I've made a symlink from /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex to pdfetex and all is okay now. TexLive2006 works without that hack, because it doesn't put the context formats in an $engine subdirectory, which may cause other problems. See the thread "debian context updates" (Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:39:40 GMT). -Sanjoy `Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)