texmfstart problem (long time spend somewhere)
Hello,
For near two years I use ConTeXt under the MiTeX distribution.
Last weekend I installed the last version of ConTeXt (2006-07-21)
available on MikTeX.
Since this installation, the program texmfstart don't work correctly.
After the command : "texmfstart texexec first.tex"
nothing happen for a long time before texexec is actualy executed.
After the command : "texmfstart --verbose texexec first.tex", I can see :
texmfstart version 2.0.0
expanding 'texexec' to 'texexec.rb'
locating 'texexec.rb' in current path '.'
locating 'texexec.rb' in caller path 'C:/documents/proxima/tmp'
On 12/12/06, Denis Pinsard wrote:
Hello,
For near two years I use ConTeXt under the MiTeX distribution. Last weekend I installed the last version of ConTeXt (2006-07-21) available on MikTeX.
Try to install MikTeX 2.5. Since the move from 2.4 to 2.5 when the author made our wish true (to move from the old perl scripts to new ruby texmfstart), new releases of ConTeXt don't work any more on MikTeX 2.4. (texmfstart requires a feature that is not present in MikTeX 2.4) I had other problems than the ones you describe, but try to see if upgrading helps. The standalone version should not be influenced by MikTeX by any means and should work. I suspect that MikTeX executables might be called if environment is not initialized properly ... Mojca
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 12/12/06, Denis Pinsard wrote:
Hello,
For near two years I use ConTeXt under the MiTeX distribution. Last weekend I installed the last version of ConTeXt (2006-07-21) available on MikTeX.
Try to install MikTeX 2.5. Since the move from 2.4 to 2.5 when the author made our wish true (to move from the old perl scripts to new ruby texmfstart), new releases of ConTeXt don't work any more on MikTeX 2.4. (texmfstart requires a feature that is not present in MikTeX 2.4)
I had other problems than the ones you describe, but try to see if upgrading helps.
alternatively, if you don't want to update to 2.5, copy a kpsewhich from texlive to your miktex bin path 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
Mojca Miklavec a écrit :
Try to install MikTeX 2.5. ...
The standalone version should not be influenced by MikTeX by any means and should work.
Same behaviour with MikTeX 2.5 I have renamed the MikTeX directory and suppressed the reference to MikTeX in the PATH; then the stand alone version had the same behaviour : The command "texexec --version" takes about one minute before producing the result : TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD
Denis Pinsard wrote: -- see mojca's answer --
usually this means that the only way left to locate the script is to scan the whole texmf tree 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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