[tex-live] Really found the reason. Was: mktexpk problem, works with TL2003 not with TL2004

[Gerben Wierda]

On Oct 10, 2004, at 15:49, Thomas Esser wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 03:33:45PM +0200, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>>> % Thomas Esser, 1998, 2004. public domain.
>>> \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
>>> \else
>>>  \ifx\pdfoutput\relax
>>>  \else
>>>    \input pdftexconfig
>>>    \pdfoutput=1
>>>  \fi
>>> \fi
>>>
>>> \scrollmode
>>> \input latex.ltx
>>> \endinput
>
> I don't see why you have a problem with this. pdfetex has \pdfoutput !=
> \undefined and \pdfoutput != \relax, so it should go to the code
>   \input pdftexconfig
>   \pdfoutput=1
>
> The version of pdflatex.ini that you have (from some teTeX-beta) is
> still my current version and it works for me:
>
>     $ fmtutil --byfmt pdflatex
>     running `pdfetex -ini   -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex  
> -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' ...
>     This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) (INITEX)
>     ...
>      
> (/software/oss/Text/teTeX-3.0/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/config/ 
> pdflatex.ini
>      
> (/software/oss/Text/teTeX-3.0/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/ 
> pdftexconfig.
>     ...

But here it does:

> running `pdfetex -ini   -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex  
> *pdflatex.ini' ...
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) (INITEX)
> output format initialized to DVI
> entering extended mode
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/pdftex/latex/config/pdflatex.ini
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx

The reason seems to be that an old fmtutil.cnf is in the way without  
the -translate-file snippet in it.

hedwig:/usr/local/src/INSTALL-TeX/texmf gerben$ diff -c2  
fmtutil.cnf.tl200[34]|grep pdflatex.ini
! pdflatex      pdfetex         language.dat    *pdflatex.ini
! pdflatex      pdfetex         language.dat     
-translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini

Fixing this solves my mktexpk problem (or at least problem one).

But it unconvers another problem which I'll post in a separate message.

G