Problems installing tetex-beta-2.96.1.20040322 on Mac OS X 10.3.3

On Apr 6, 2004, at 7:23 PM, Thomas Esser wrote:

>> Error: kpsewhich cannot find config file of pdftex (pdftex.cfg)
> ...
>> I am probably missing something obvious here, and would really
>> appreciate if somebody
>> more knowledgeable than I (i.e, almost anybody :-) would help me 
>> figure
>> out what's going on.
>
> The "release" that you have there is inconsistent/buggy. Maybe, you can
> get a working version from taking the scripts from teTeX-beta (2.96).
>
> Thomas

Thanks a lot, Thomas. Following your suggestion, I tried to install the 
latest
teTeX-beta on my machine (I'm running Mac OS X 10.3.3). Compilation was 
successful,
but the installation phase ("make install") failed with several errors 
when executing
"fmtutil --all". In the first place, there were several files
(/opt/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.ini,
/opt/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/bplain.ini, ...) 
which contained the
following typo:

\input pdftexconfig\pdfoutput=0

This, of course, produced an "unknown command" error and aborted 
generation
of the format. After fixing this by hand, many formats were still not 
generated. I.e., tex, texinfo,
and amstex failed as follows (for example, for tex)

running `tex -ini   -jobname=tex -progname=tex bplain.ini' ...
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.5.2) (INITEX)
(/opt/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/bplain.ini
(/opt/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.3 \pdfoutput
               =1
?
! Emergency stop.
l.3 \pdfoutput
               =1
No pages of output.
Transcript written on tex.log.
Error: `tex -ini  -jobname=tex -progname=tex bplain.ini' failed

On the other hand, etex, latex, pdftex, and pdfamstex failed with the
following type of error:

running `etex -ini   -jobname=etex -progname=etex *etex.ini' ...
warning: Could not open char translation file `cp8bit.tcx'.
! I can't read tex.pool; bad path?
Error: `etex -ini  -jobname=etex -progname=etex *etex.ini' failed

The only non-standard thing I did in the configuration process was
to change texk/kpathsea/texmf.in by setting

HOMETEXMF = $HOME/Library/texmf

(standard in OS X), and running ./configure --prefix=/opt/local/teTeX.
Do you have any idea of what could be wrong?

Cheers,

Artemio Gonzalez-Lopez
Depto. Fisica Teorica II
Universidad Complutense
28040 Madrid, SPAIN

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