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R. Bastian

23 Apr 2009 23 Apr '09

8:24 a.m.

Hi, I am new on this list. I use pftex and would use ConTeXt installed with texlive/2007. 'ruby' and 'pdftex' work fine, but 'texexec' (texexec.rb "$@") is very slow. Where con I get the doc or what shall I do ? Thanks, -- René Bastian 1 rue du Presbytère F-67160 Wissembourg

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Hans Hagen

23 Apr 23 Apr

8:48 a.m.

R. Bastian wrote:

Hi,

I am new on this list. I use pftex and would use ConTeXt installed with texlive/2007.

'ruby' and 'pdftex' work fine, but 'texexec' (texexec.rb "$@") is very slow.

what do you do with texexec then? ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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R. Bastian

9:08 a.m.

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:48:35 +0200 Hans Hagen scribit:

R. Bastian wrote:

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Hi,

I am new on this list. I use pftex and would use ConTeXt installed with texlive/2007.

'ruby' and 'pdftex' work fine, but 'texexec' (texexec.rb "$@") is very slow.

what do you do with texexec then?

texexec --help or texexec --version

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Aditya Mahajan

2:26 p.m.

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, R. Bastian wrote:

Hi,

I am new on this list. I use pftex and would use ConTeXt installed with texlive/2007.

'ruby' and 'pdftex' work fine, but 'texexec' (texexec.rb "$@") is very slow.

Where con I get the doc or what shall I do ?

I do not know if this is related or not...but Occasionally I also find that texexec is extremely slow. (Takes about a minute to initiate and then runs fine). This happens, when my internet connection is in a bad state (which means that ping to a server also time out). In that situation texmfstart takes ages to get a response from drb. Whenever I kill the process by ^C, the interupt is in the call to drb. I do not remember the exact interupt message, but I will try to get more information when this happens the next time. If I avoid texmfstart, ie, run ruby $TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb directly, it runs fine. Aditya

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R. Bastian

2:55 p.m.

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:26:40 -0400 (EDT) Aditya Mahajan scribit:

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, R. Bastian wrote:

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Hi,

I am new on this list. I use pftex and would use ConTeXt installed with texlive/2007.

'ruby' and 'pdftex' work fine, but 'texexec' (texexec.rb "$@") is very slow.

Where con I get the doc or what shall I do ?

I do not know if this is related or not...but

Occasionally I also find that texexec is extremely slow. (Takes about a minute to initiate and then runs fine). This happens, when my internet connection is in a bad state (which means that ping to a server also time out). In that situation texmfstart takes ages to get a response from drb. Whenever I kill the process by ^C, the interupt is in the call to drb. I do not remember the exact interupt message, but I will try to get more information when this happens the next time. If I avoid texmfstart, ie, run ruby $TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb directly, it runs fine.

Aditya

"ruby $TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb <texfile>" Haha ! with this tip I get an error message from 'pdftex' : libstdc++.so.5 ... No such file ... The libstdc++6 is installed. What can I do ?

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R. Bastian

3:10 p.m.

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:55:56 +0200 "R. Bastian" scribit:

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:26:40 -0400 (EDT) Aditya Mahajan scribit:

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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, R. Bastian wrote:

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Hi,

I am new on this list. I use pftex and would use ConTeXt installed with texlive/2007.

'ruby' and 'pdftex' work fine, but 'texexec' (texexec.rb "$@") is very slow.

Where con I get the doc or what shall I do ?

I do not know if this is related or not...but

Occasionally I also find that texexec is extremely slow. (Takes about a minute to initiate and then runs fine). This happens, when my internet connection is in a bad state (which means that ping to a server also time out). In that situation texmfstart takes ages to get a response from drb. Whenever I kill the process by ^C, the interupt is in the call to drb. I do not remember the exact interupt message, but I will try to get more information when this happens the next time. If I avoid texmfstart, ie, run ruby $TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb directly, it runs fine.

Aditya

"ruby $TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb <texfile>"

Haha ! with this tip I get an error message from 'pdftex' : libstdc++.so.5 ... No such file ...

The libstdc++6 is installed. What can I do ?

I installed libstdc++5 - now pdftex complains "cant find ... 'cont-en.fmt' "

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R. Bastian

5:32 p.m.

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:10:29 +0200 "R. Bastian" scribit:

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:55:56 +0200 "R. Bastian" scribit:

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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:26:40 -0400 (EDT) Aditya Mahajan scribit:

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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, R. Bastian wrote:

...
Hi,

I am new on this list. I use pftex and would use ConTeXt installed with texlive/2007.

'ruby' and 'pdftex' work fine, but 'texexec' (texexec.rb "$@") is very slow.

Where con I get the doc or what shall I do ?

I do not know if this is related or not...but

Occasionally I also find that texexec is extremely slow. (Takes about a minute to initiate and then runs fine). This happens, when my internet connection is in a bad state (which means that ping to a server also time out). In that situation texmfstart takes ages to get a response from drb. Whenever I kill the process by ^C, the interupt is in the call to drb. I do not remember the exact interupt message, but I will try to get more information when this happens the next time. If I avoid texmfstart, ie, run ruby $TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb directly, it runs fine.

Aditya

"ruby $TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb <texfile>"

Haha ! with this tip I get an error message from 'pdftex' : libstdc++.so.5 ... No such file ...

The libstdc++6 is installed. What can I do ?

I installed libstdc++5 - now pdftex complains "cant find ... 'cont-en.fmt' "

i dont know if it is of interest for you: - I switched back to TL2007 (now pdftex finds 'cont-en') - texexec source.tex compiles 3 min 14 sec for 1 page of pdf - pdftex -fmt cont-en compiles 1 sec and produces a dvi file Thanks for your help.

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Mojca Miklavec

9:19 p.m.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 17:10, R. Bastian wrote:

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:55:56 +0200 "R. Bastian" scribit:

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"ruby $TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb <texfile>"

Haha ! with this tip I get an error message from 'pdftex' : libstdc++.so.5 ... No such file ...

Taco, what's the state with this particular library dependency? There are two problems: - texexec might not always check if pdftex fails and it eats some messages inbetween - library dependency should be fixed

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The libstdc++6 is installed. What can I do ?

I installed libstdc++5 - now pdftex complains "cant find ... 'cont-en.fmt' "

What about texexec --make --all ? When I started using ConTeXt (2004) the average running time for "hello world" documents was definitely somewhere between 30 seconds and a minute. But it has improved dramaticaly over time (3 seconds in the second run as I mentioned) whereas LaTeX runtime has increased. But TeXLive 2007 is not so old after all, so it's still a bit strange.

i dont know if it is of interest for you: - I switched back to TL2007 (now pdftex finds 'cont-en') - texexec source.tex compiles 3 min 14 sec for 1 page of pdf - pdftex -fmt cont-en compiles 1 sec and produces a dvi file

Weird. Maybe texexec does some crazy stuff, but it's a bit hard to tell what exactly. Mojca

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Taco Hoekwater

24 Apr 24 Apr

6:36 a.m.

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 17:10, R. Bastian wrote:

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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:55:56 +0200 "R. Bastian" scribit:

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"ruby $TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb <texfile>"

Haha ! with this tip I get an error message from 'pdftex' : libstdc++.so.5 ... No such file ...

Taco, what's the state with this particular library dependency?

Not 100% sure but I think it should be better now (or at least soon), as Thanh wrote he has updated the build script for pdftex. One thing to remember is that to make pdftex use a static libstdc++, the machine you are compiling pdftex on has to have the static version of libstdc++ installed. Best wishes, Taco

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Mojca Miklavec

9:17 a.m.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:36, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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Haha ! with this tip I get an error message from 'pdftex' : libstdc++.so.5 ... No such file ...

Taco, what's the state with this particular library dependency?

Not 100% sure but I think it should be better now (or at least soon), as Thanh wrote he has updated the build script for pdftex.

One thing to remember is that to make pdftex use a static libstdc++, the machine you are compiling pdftex on has to have the static version of libstdc++ installed.

I have checked. There are both libstdc++5 and libstdc++5-3.3-dev pacakges installed on Debian and locate showed both ".so" and ".a" file, but I figured out that it also has libstdc++6 (which was not installed). How does pdftex building process decide which one to use in case that both are installed? Mojca

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Hans Hagen

23 Apr 23 Apr

5:40 p.m.

Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, R. Bastian wrote:

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Hi,

I am new on this list. I use pftex and would use ConTeXt installed with texlive/2007.

'ruby' and 'pdftex' work fine, but 'texexec' (texexec.rb "$@") is very slow.

Where con I get the doc or what shall I do ?

I do not know if this is related or not...but

Occasionally I also find that texexec is extremely slow. (Takes about a minute to initiate and then runs fine). This happens, when my internet

hm, there is some code in there for a distributed kpse server but as it is not enabled by default i wonder ... anyhow, i'll remove that code also, one can use mtxrun as dropin (but the specific aspect has a buglet) so in upcoming distributions we will use that ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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