[tex-live] Re: [tex-k] TeX finding filenames with spaces

[Thomas Esser]

> this loop is normal, I think; ie it always behaved like that.

Hm... WHat causes this loop? If I create an "invalid" language.dat and run
"texconfig init", I get something like:

    ...
    Hyphenation trie of length 256 has 0 ops out of 35111
    No pages of output.
    Transcript written on mptopdf.log.
    fmtutil: /software/oss/Text/teTeX-2.0/share/texmf/web2c/lambda.oft installed.
    fmtutil: /software/oss/Text/teTeX-2.0/share/texmf/web2c/omega.oft installed.
    fmtutil: /software/oss/Text/teTeX-2.0/share/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt installed.
    fmtutil: /software/oss/Text/teTeX-2.0/share/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt installed.
    fmtutil: /software/oss/Text/teTeX-2.0/share/texmf/web2c/cont-en.efmt installed.
    fmtutil: /software/oss/Text/teTeX-2.0/share/texmf/web2c/etex.efmt installed.
    fmtutil: /software/oss/Text/teTeX-2.0/share/texmf/web2c/mptopdf.efmt installed.
    fmtutil: /software/oss/Text/teTeX-2.0/share/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.efmt installed.
    fmtutil: /software/oss/Text/teTeX-2.0/share/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem installed.
    fmtutil: /software/oss/Text/teTeX-2.0/share/texmf/web2c/mpost.mem installed.
    fmtutil: /software/oss/Text/teTeX-2.0/share/texmf/web2c/mf.base installed.

    ###############################################################################
    fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
    Visit the log files in directory
      /software/oss/Text/teTeX-2.0/share/texmf/web2c
    for details.
    ###############################################################################

    This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
    `etex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex *latex.ini' failed
    `etex -ini -jobname=elatex -progname=elatex *elatex.ini' failed
    `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex *pdflatex.ini' failed
    `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=pdfelatex -progname=pdfelatex *pdfelatex.ini' failed

No endless loop...

Thomas