Building texlive-latex fails when pdftex is not available and pdftex is not a * Building format texmf/fmtutil/format.latex.cnf fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' ... /usr/bin/fmtutil: line 317: pdftex: command not found Reproducible: Always
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... and pdftex is not a dependency pulled in automatically.
the default pdftex is provided by texlive-core; what does ls -l /usr/bin/pdftex say?
(In reply to comment #3) > the default pdftex is provided by texlive-core; what does ls -l /usr/bin/pdftex > say? $ ls -l /usr/bin/pdftex lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 5 17:04 /usr/bin/pdftex -> pdftex-texlive-core-2008 I also got in troubles here. The real problem seems to be luatex which croaks "zlib library version does not match - header: 1.2.3, library: 1.2.5" (also in the attached build log) ------------------------------------------ fmtutil: /var/tmp/portage/dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2008-r2/work/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt installed. fmtutil: running `luatex -ini -jobname=lualatex -progname=lualatex lualatex.ini' ... PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (zlib library version does not match - header: 1.2.3, library: 1.2.5) Error: `luatex -ini -jobname=lualatex -progname=lualatex lualatex.ini' failed fmtutil: running `luatex -ini -jobname=pdflualatex -progname=pdflualatex pdflualatex.ini' ... PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (zlib library version does not match - header: 1.2.3, library: 1.2.5) Error: `luatex -ini -jobname=pdflualatex -progname=pdflualatex pdflualatex.ini' failed ------------------------------------------ My zlib is indeed 1.2.5-r2, though I don't know why luatex claims its headers are 1.2.3: $ luatex PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (zlib library version does not match - header: 1.2.3, library: 1.2.5 so I recompiled dev-tex/luatex, then texlive-latex recompiles fine :-) I wonder why revdep-rebuild didn't catch it... HTH! ^s
