Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro
All, Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today. If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise. Thanks.
On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:05 PM, David Arnold wrote:
All,
Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today.
If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise.
Thanks.
Yes, I rebuild them whenever a new version comes out, so about twice a day... My own experience is: it's perfectly smooth, and if there were problems, they weren't specific to the Mac. If you want the formats to be copied into the system-wide tree (that's /usr/local/teTeX/texmf/ texmf.local/web2c) instead of your personal ~/Library/texmf/ and are using the new texmfstart method, you should invoke the script from a root shell: sudo su texmfstart texexec --make --all Other than that, I can't think of anything special. Good luck Thomas
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:05 PM, David Arnold wrote:
All,
Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today.
If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise.
Thanks.
Yes, I rebuild them whenever a new version comes out, so about twice a day...
that's even more frequently than i do -) so you use all new tricks, features and fixes ... interesting
ctxtools --update should also do the job but one has to make sure that a next update with gerbens installer does not conflict with your own update then Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Aug 2, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:05 PM, David Arnold wrote:
All,
Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today.
If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise.
Thanks.
Yes, I rebuild them whenever a new version comes out, so about twice a day...
My own experience is: it's perfectly smooth, and if there were problems, they weren't specific to the Mac. If you want the formats to be copied into the system-wide tree (that's /usr/local/teTeX/texmf/ texmf.local/web2c) instead of your personal ~/Library/texmf/ and are using the new texmfstart method, you should invoke the script from a root shell:
sudo su
texmfstart texexec --make --all
Other than that, I can't think of anything special.
Good luck
Thomas
After running sudo texmfstart texexec --make --all I have on the odd occasion had to copy the updated cont-en.fmt and cont-nl.fmt from /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/pdfetex to /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c In any case, check the creation dates/times. When the latest version was not in the latter, I got format mismatch errors and then nada. I am not sure why this happened, since I had not done anything other than run Gerben’s i-Installer. Alan
David Arnold wrote:
All,
Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today.
If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise.
hm, i'll make you a beta which then will show up in gerbens distro Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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