Have a look at this (Well its about XP) .. But who knows, it could help :=) http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20041115.161341.884a23e7.html In fact it is a kind of complete distribution that handles Context ..

Ciro A. Soto wrote:

I think TEXEXEC 3.1 is still the latest version. what are new are the

you're kidding, i have:

texexec

TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 --help overview of all options and their values --help all all about all options --help short just the main options --help mode ... pdf all about a few options --help '*.pdf' all about options containing 'pdf' more info http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mtexexec.pdf http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context total run time : 1 seconds ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

ab wrote:

Willi Egger writes:

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TEXEXEC is way too old. The current version is above 5! After updating your context it appears that it uses still a very outdated version of texexec. I advise you to update your tex-system from CTAN (http://www.tug.org/interest.html).

Hi, I am trying to keep my context up-to-date, and so I installed the new cont-tmf in my ~/texmf directory, and I get the following:

% texexec 041120_testfile.tex Not enough arguments for mkdir at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 2259, near "$FormatPath ;" Execution of /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec aborted due to compilation errors.

there should be something: if ($UseEnginePath && ($FormatPath ne '' && ($FormatPath !~ /$EnginePath\/$/))) { $FormatPath .= $EnginePath . '/' ; unless (-d $FormatPath) { mkdir $FormatPath ; } } ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

I believe it is possible that this code

...

if ($UseEnginePath && ($FormatPath ne '' && ($FormatPath !~ /$EnginePath\/$/))) { $FormatPath .= $EnginePath . '/' ; unless (-d $FormatPath) { mkdir $FormatPath ; } }

breaks in perl versions < 5.8.0 because of the trailing slash in the mkdir call. It would be great if someone could verify if

mkdir "test/" ;

actually fails in 5.004/5.005/5.6.x (perl58delta seems to hint at that). If so, then probably changing the second line to read:

$FormatPath .= $EnginePath ;

will fix the bug.

ah, thanks for looking into it, i changed the code to: if ($UseEnginePath && ($FormatPath ne '' && ($FormatPath !~ /$EnginePath\/$/))) { $FormatPath .= $EnginePath ; unless (-d $FormatPath) { mkdir $FormatPath ; } $FormatPath .= '/' ; } ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi, How about: mkdir ("$FormatPath") ; (I cannot test, I do not have a perl that is sufficiently antique to test this) ab wrote:

and I still get the error:

pm@antonio 62% texexec 041121_table.tex Not enough arguments for mkdir at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 2259, near "$FormatPath ;" Execution of /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec aborted due to compilation errors.

Thank-you

ab wrote:

Taco Hoekwater writes:

...

Hi,

How about:

mkdir ("$FormatPath") ;

(I cannot test, I do not have a perl that is sufficiently antique to test this)

Hi,

I modified texexec.pl per your suggestion and continue to get the same error message:

Not enough arguments for mkdir at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 2259, near ""$FormatPath") "

[I'm not sure why the error message drops the opening parentheses, but it is there in the file]

Thanks again for your help.

can't you update you rperl to 5.8+? 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

h h extern writes:

ab wrote:

...

Willi Egger writes:

...

TEXEXEC is way too old. The current version is above 5! After updating your context it appears that it uses still a very outdated version of texexec. I advise you to update your tex-system from CTAN (http://www.tug.org/interest.html). Hi, I am trying to keep my context up-to-date, and so I installed the new cont-tmf in my ~/texmf directory, and I get the following: % texexec 041120_testfile.tex Not enough arguments for mkdir at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 2259, near "$FormatPath ;" Execution of /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec aborted due to compilation errors.

there should be something:

if ($UseEnginePath && ($FormatPath ne '' && ($FormatPath !~ /$EnginePath\/$/))) { $FormatPath .= $EnginePath . '/' ; unless (-d $FormatPath) { mkdir $FormatPath ; } }

That is what I have, assuming whitespace, linebreaks and indentation are unimportant (please forgive my ignorance). Thank you for your help --

Taco Hoekwater writes:

ab wrote:

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% texexec 041120_testfile.tex Not enough arguments for mkdir at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 2259, near "$FormatPath ;"

Can you given us the output perl -v ?

pm@antonio 39% perl -V Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 5) configuration: Platform: osname=irix, osvers=6.5, archname=irix-n32 uname='irix64 bitbucket 6.5-alpha-1287815120 12010410 ip27 ' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define bincompat3=y useperlio=define d_sfio=undef Compiler: cc='cc -n32 -mips3', optimize='-O3 -mips3', gccversion= cppflags='-D_BSD_SIGNALS -D_BSD_TYPES -D_BSD_TIME -OPT:Olimit=0:space=ON -DLANGUAGE_C -DEMBEDMYMALLOC' ccflags ='-D_BSD_SIGNALS -D_BSD_TYPES -D_BSD_TIME -woff 1009,1110,1184 -OPT:Olimit=0:space=ON -DLANGUAGE_C -DEMBEDMYMALLOC' stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=undef, doublesize=undef alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc -n32 -mips3', ldflags ='-n32' libpth=/usr/lib32 /lib32 libs=-lm libc=/usr/lib32/libc.so, so=so useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.4.5 Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='' cccdlflags='', lddlflags='-n32 -mips3 -shared' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Locally applied patches: SUIDMAIL - fixes for suidperl security Built under irix Compiled at Oct 10 2002 02:13:52 @INC: /usr/share/lib/perl5/irix-n32/5.00405 /usr/share/lib/perl5 /usr/share/lib/perl5/site_perl/irix-n32 /usr/share/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/share/lib/perl5/sgi_perl . Thanks for your help. --