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Bug 101465 - Allegro fails to build with tetex use flag (~x86 version of tetex)
Summary: Allegro fails to build with tetex use flag (~x86 version of tetex)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 98029
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Text-Markup Team (OBSOLETE)
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Reported: 2005-08-05 11:39 UTC by Yosef Meller
Modified: 2006-01-05 05:59 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Yosef Meller 2005-08-05 11:39:21 UTC
media-libs/allegro-4.0.3 fails when emerged with tetex use flag on (goes ok
without that flag). 

Error:
cd docs && texi2dvi -c texi/allegro.texi && cd ..
This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/etex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex appears to be broken, quitting.
make: *** [docs/allegro.dvi] Error 1

tetex version: 3.0-r2


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
USE="tetex" emerge allegro
Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-08-05 12:23:21 UTC
let's hear from the text-markup group please.
Comment 2 Kyle Liddell 2005-09-29 00:30:58 UTC
I have the same issue with emerging allegro (4.1.18 though) when using
tetex-3.0-*.  Running texi2dvi on any .texi file on my system fails with the
same error.  Running etex on any .tex file also gives the etex.fmt error.
However, downgrading to tetex-2.* allows texi2dvi to work here also.
It looks a bit like bug 97239.

I've tried using fmtutil-sys --edit to change the etex format to use the etex
engine (as opposed to pdfetex) and then running fmtutil-sys --all to recreate
the /var/lib/texmf/web2c/*fmt files, but I get the same error.  (Still the
"written by pdfetex" bit, even though it's set to use the etex engine.  I've now
run out of things to try for this.
Comment 3 Patrizio Bassi 2005-11-01 06:31:20 UTC
same here 
 
cd docs && texi2dvi -c texi/allegro.texi && cd .. 
This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) 
---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/etex.fmt was written by pdfetex 
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) 
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex appears to be broken, quitting. 
make: *** [docs/allegro.dvi] Error 1 
 
Comment 4 Chris Smith 2005-12-05 08:39:43 UTC
Same problem here with media-libs/allegro-4.2.0.

docs/makedoc -ascii docs/build/watcom.txt docs/src/build/watcom._tx
cd docs && texi2dvi -c texi/allegro.texi && cd ..
This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/etex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex appears to be broken, quitting.

Comment 5 Alexandre Buisse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-12-05 08:55:22 UTC
This is a known problem with tetex-3 and etex... We are currently looking at how
to solve it but so far didn't succeed.
Merging with tetex-2 or disabling the doc/tetex USE flag seem to be the only
options available now.
Comment 6 Alexandre Buisse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-12-05 09:10:45 UTC
Digging through the tetex mailing-lists, I found this "fix". It worked for me on
another package, so perhaps can it help you too (it's really dirty and not a
real fix, though) :

cd /usr/bin
mv etex _etex
ln -s pdfetex etex


If you try it, please report success or failure.
Comment 7 Jens Svalgaard Kohrt 2005-12-09 02:25:04 UTC
The fix mentioned in #6 works for me. But does it create problems somewhere else?
Comment 8 Alexandre Buisse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-01-05 05:59:34 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98029 ***