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Re: Help compile latex.fmt
- To: Zhang Xiangsun <xszhang at amath13 dot amt dot ac dot cn>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, lhall at rfk dot com, tolj at uni-duesseldorf dot de
- Subject: Re: Help compile latex.fmt
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:14:11 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---Zhang Xiangsun <xszhang@amath13.amt.ac.cn> wrote:
>
> Yes, It has the same problems both in binary/text and not binary/text
> format
> I also try it in Sun-solaris 2.5, it works well. So it must be the
> compiling problem. How can I setting the compiler to overcome this
> problem?
>
> thanks.
>
> yang
>
> Larry Hall wrote:
> >
> > At 09:12 PM 10/27/98 +0800, you wrote:
> > >When I use cygwin32_b19 and egcs1.1 to compile tex: web2c from
> > >CTAN/web2c/
> > >configure is successful, so as compile the binaries program such as
> > >tex.exe,
> > >gftopk.exe, etc. but when it compile the latex.fmt, errors occured.
> > >
> > >The error maessages is as follows:
> > >
> > >This is TeX, version 3.14159(web2c 7.2) (INITEX)
> > >(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx)
> > >(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/texsys.cfg)
> > >!Missing control sequence inserted
> > ><inserted text>
> > > \inaccessible
> > >...
> > >l. 194 ...xists{:texsys.aux}{\gdef\@currdir{:}}{}}}
According to the FAQ filenames matching a dos device name such as the
aux in texsys.aux above will cause problems. Change all of the
occurances of aux to xxx or something that isn't a dos device name and
it should take care of the problem.
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