[NTG-context] Re: texexec returns 0 when generating format file

Simon Pepping writes: Good evening,

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when issuing the command 'texexec --make --alone en' the cont-en format gets generated. Everything is nice except that texexec returns status code "1", which on unix systems means failure. Is there any way to get a "0"?

For me it returns 0, as expected.

even with the --alone?

Making a format runs RunOneFormat, and it may be that setting $Problems and hence returning a positive value is a side effect of not using fmtutil.

That was exactly the problem. I am not using fmtutil (since I use the switch --alone) and therefore $Problems is set to 1.

$Problems = system ( "$cmd" ) ; and see if it changes things.

It did and thank you. Could this (or anything like this) go into distribution? Patrick