My solution was to drop the pdftex binary I've compiled in /usr/local/bin. Unfortunately from there it thought that it "belonged" to Fedora's RPM-installed TeXLive 2007 instead of my separate 2008 installation. This is due the kpathsea's compile-time defaults for CNF locations (paths.h), which eventually finds TL 2007's texmf.cnf in /usr/share/texmf/web2c. But at least I know that my patched pdftex works with TL2007. I'm unable to make it work with 2008 however. Han, what TeXLive are you using? In 2008 there's no texmf-main anymore, and texmf-config is empty... If I just do: export TEXMFCNF=/fc5/tl/2008/texmf/web2c then pdftex barely works, it cannot even find its pdftex.map file: pdfTeX warning: pdftex (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map file Anything beyond CM fonts, even LaTeX's minimal.cls cannot be found. TL 2008 user guide suggests in section 3.4.5 to set TEXMFCNF=/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/web2c But there's no texmf.cnf in texmf-var/web2c, only a fmtutil.cnf On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Thanh Han The wrote:

pdftex (and any program that uses kpathsea) can be run from any location, but one has to set TEXMFCNF to the right location (and probably edit texmf.cnf slightly). Personally I use

TEXMFCNF=/opt/texlive/texmf-config/web2c:/opt/texlive/texmf-main/web2c

where /opt/texlive/texmf-main/web2c/texmf.cnf is the original texlive texmf.cnf, and I put my changes /opt/texlive/texmf-config/web2c/texmf.cnf to override a few tl settings.

Thanh

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:31:46PM +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:

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Thanks, the patch is not the problem. The problem is that one cannot run pdftex from the build dir. It needs to sit in a TDS to be able to find the config files plus all the tex stuff required to build the fmt file. In my case it could not find texmf.cnf at all, so it used some defaults, hence the error.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Thanh Han The wrote:

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you can try to compile pdftex from sources, but without your patch.

1. if it works, then the problem is likely with the patch.

2. if not, the problem is likely with your tex config.

Thanh

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 02:34:45PM +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:

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I'm not sure that anyone reads pdftex@tug.org, so I'm trying my luck on this list:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vasile Gaburici Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:23 PM Subject: Rebuilding pdftex gives ---! Must increase the hyph_size (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) To: "pdftex@tug.org"

I've applied a small patch (unrelated to hyphenation) to pdftex 1.40.9 sources and I've successfully recompiled it. But when I try to use it against the TeXLive 2008 tree (without overwriting the old binary), I'm getting this:

fmtutil: /home/vga/.texlive2008/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt installed. ---! Must increase the hyph_size (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

Changing the hyph_size in texmf.cnf doesn's help. Any hints what could be wrong? _______________________________________________ ntg-pdftex mailing list ntg-pdftex@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-pdftex

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