[tex-live] files generated by fmtutil/updmap -- platform independent?

Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org
Thu Aug 19 21:32:32 CEST 2010


> Are the files generated by updmap and fmtutil platform independent?

  Yes, absolutely.  The map files produced by updmap are plain text
files whose syntax varies slightly between the different programs that
read them (dvips, dvipdfm, pdftex), but in any case it does not depend
on the platform.  The format files also don't depend on the platform
they're produced on, although their layout varies greatly from one
engine to the other (TeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX, etc.).  I seem to remember that
at some point, LuaTeX generated format files that depended on the
endianness of the processor, but that was definitely considered a bug
and has been fixed since then.

>                                                                     We
> are thinking of providing a pre-made texmf-var in OpenBSD packages (if
> possible).

  That should work, I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't.

>            Is there anything else I would need other than texmf-var
> (texmf-config?).

  The configuration files in texmf/web2c, obviously, since that's where
texmf.cnf and other sit by default.

	Arthur


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