Re: (not) running fmtutil while building package?

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email protected]> schrieb:

> make install now wants to run
>
>     TEXMFMAIN=$(texmf) fmtutil --all
>
> but that fails when building a package.  When building a package, you
> can't use texmf=/usr/share/texmf, so I use something like
> texmf=/netrel/tetex-xyz/usr/share/texmf.
>
> An option would be not to run fmtutil at install time, but rather at
> postinstall of the binary package, but I do not see what @FMU@ should
> be substituted with 
>
>     @FMU@
>     @FMU@install-extra:
>
> in this Makefile.in snippet to achieve that.

I think it should be substituted by nothing - then the
mktexlsr/fmtutil/texlinks calls go into a separate target that is not
executed. However, ./configure is missing a proper option for
this. There's only

# initialize texmf tree with fmtutil only for teTeX and TeX Live
if test ! -d $srcdir/texk/tetex || test -n "$xdvik_standalone"; then
  FMU=
else
  FMU='# '
fi

But $xdvik_standalone cannot be used (I think), because it has other
implications. 

I don't grok the whole build system; there are options in reautoconf
that sound somewhat like what we want:

    -e 's@--enable-fmtutil.*use fmtutil for build dumps@--disable-fmtutil       do not use fmtutil for build dumps@' \
    -e 's@--with-mktexfmt-default.*run mktexfmt if format file missing@--without-mktexfmt-default   do not run mktexfmt if format file mmissing@' \

But I don't even know what reautoconf is for... Probably we just need a
new configure switch and an other OR'ed test for setting of the FMU
variable. 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie