[dev-context] [NTG-context] texmfstart texutil

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Fri Jun 9 15:17:58 CEST 2006


Hans,

maybe you can add something to ctxtools.rb that executes

    system("chmod +x scripts/context/unix/stubs/*")

when the current platform is not a microsoft one? I believe
fixing the stubs is a part of the update process.


Cheers, Taco

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
> Hans van der Meer wrote:
> 
>>For those on UNIX(-like) systems that have only texmfstart.rb enabled  
>>as executable (chmod a+x texmfstart.rb) this will not work as none  
>>the ruby scripts in the distribution seem to have their execution  
>>bits set.
> 
> 
>>The next seems mandatory if only texmfstart is enabled: texmfstart  
>>ctxtools --purge
> 
> 
> There is a whole bunch of shell stubs in the distribution, in
> 
> 	scripts/context/stubs/unix
> 
> but currently you always have to redo the "chmod +x" after each update
> because the execution permission bit is not kept in the zip, so it
> gets trashed during the unzip operation.
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