pdflatex does not work on win after todays update but does on linux

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2021-06-11 at 11:02:06 +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:

 > good\bye works with pdflatex.

Hi Siep,
I suppose you mean (plain) pdftex.

It seems that only pdf*latex* is affected.  This is quite strange
because LaTeX is supposed to be system independent.  There are only
very few macros which are close to the OS, for instance checking
whether a file exists.  LaTeX 3 probably does a bit more in this area.

According to the output of "kpathsea debug" submitted by Andreas,
kpathsea is looking for article.cls.  This means that pdftex has no
problem loading the LaTeX format file and the crash happens after
\documentclass.

Does it always crash at the same place?  If a document depends on many
packages, does pdflatex --recorder always generate the same .fls file?

Siep, it's great that you can reproduce the problem.  I suppose that
you have MinGW installed.  Is it possible to create a stack backtrace
with gdb in order to find out in which function it crashes?

Regards,
  Reinhard

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