[tex-live] new pdftex binary for TeX Live

[Hans Hagen]

Hartmut Henkel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just an observation; maybe the following could be some cause of
> differing binaries with successive Build runs: When i go into e. g.
> pdftex with vi editor, there are lots of stuff like:
>
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
> runtime generation command
> =^@^@.:{/home/hahe/tex-live/Build/source/inst/texmf/fonts,/var/tmp/texfonts}/pk/
> {$MAKETEX_MODE,modeless}//^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@.:/home/hahe/tex-live/Build/source/inst/texmf/fonts^@^@ !}fmt
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@.:{/home/hahe/tex-
> live/Build/source/inst/texmf/fonts,/var/tmp/texfonts}/tfm//^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@.:/home/hahe/tex-live/Build/source/inst/texmf/fonts/afm//^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@.:/home/hahe/tex-live/Build/source/inst/texmf/web2c/{$engine,}//^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
> ^@^@^@.:/home/hahe/tex-live/Build/source/inst/texmf/bibtex/bib//^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@.:/home/hahe/tex-live/Build/source/inst/texmf/bibtex/bst//^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@{$SELFAUTOLOC,$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,}/web2
> c}:/.$TETEXDIR:/home/hahe/tex-live/Build/source/inst/texmf/web2c:/home/hahe/tex-live/Build/source/inst/texmf/web2c^@ !}fmt
> ^@^@^@/home/hahe/tex-live/Build/source/inst/texmf:/var/tmp/texfonts^@
> ^@^@.:/home/hahe/tex-live/Build/source/inst/texmf/fon
>
> so it seems that some path parameters go into the binary. If they are
> taken from expanded texmf.cnf during compile time, a change of texmf.cnf
> in the repository might result in different binaries.
>
> BTW, when i copy pdftex to another user's home, there is still
> /home/hahe/Build/source... in the built-in search path. So this search
> path from compile time will go onto the DVDs also (for no use, but it
> doesn't hurt either).
>
>   
afaik that kind of path crap has always been part of the binaries; i think that's related to this autoparent, autodir and similar magic variables; it normally does not hurt (on windows one also gets thee paths); the only downside is that they may sometimes slow down a search 

Hans 


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