[tex-live] fmtutil: can't enable/disable formats

[Zdenek Wagner]

It is difficult to diagnose the problem without a sample file but I
suspect you have not noticed the change in the format in TL2015, there
is a mandatory space between #! and the format name.
Zdeněk Wagner
http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz


2015-06-14 23:57 GMT+02:00 Ken Brown <kbrow1i at gmail.com>:
> I'm having problems with fmtutil on Cygwin.  Since no one else has reported
> this, I assume it's a local problem.  But I'm not literate in Perl, so I
> hope someone can help me track this down.  I'm using version r37190 of
> fmtutil.  Here's what happens when I try to disable a format:
>
> $ fmtutil-sys --disablefmt pdftex
> fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence
> order):
> fmtutil:   /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> fmtutil:   /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing
> changes:
> fmtutil:   /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> Use of uninitialized value $fmtname in split at
> /usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-cygwin/fmtutil line 680.
> Use of uninitialized value $fmt in hash element at
> /usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-cygwin/fmtutil line 695.
> Use of uninitialized value $fmt in concatenation (.) or string at
> /usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-cygwin/fmtutil line 707.
> fmtutil [WARNING]: Format  is not defined.
> fmtutil [WARNING]: Cannot (de)activate it.
>
>
> If I disable the format by editing
> /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf and then try to
> enable it, I get the following:
>
> $ fmtutil-sys --enablefmt pdftex
> fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence
> order):
> fmtutil:   /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> fmtutil:   /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing
> changes:
> fmtutil:   /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> $VAR1 = {
>   'order' => [
>     '/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf',
>     '/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf'
>   ],
>   'fmtutil' => {
>     '/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf' => {
>       'formats' => {
>         'mllatex' => {
>           'pdftex' => {
>             'hyphen' => 'language.dat',
>             'status' => 'enabled',
>             'args' => '-translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex *mllatex.ini',
>             'line' => 99
>
> [many more lines removed]
>
>       }
>     },
>     'cslatex' => {
>       'pdftex' => {
>         'hyphen' => '-',
>         'status' => 'enabled',
>         'args' => '-etex cslatex.ini',
>         'origin' => '/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf'
>       }
>     }
>   },
>   'changes_config' =>
> '/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf'
> };
> Undefined subroutine &main::save_fmtutil called at
> /usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-cygwin/fmtutil line 655.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.
>
> Ken
>
> P.S. As far as I can tell, fmtutil works fine for actually creating formats.
> For example, 'fmtutil-sys --all' and 'fmtutil-sys --byfmt pdftex' do create
> formats.  It's only enabling and disabling that are not working for me.
>
> P.P.S.  I've tried both perl-5.14.3 and perl-5.22.0, with the same results.