The format.*.cnf fmtutil files used and installed by xmltex and jadetex contain an unescaped '&' character intended as the '&format' signifier argument to pdftex: /usr/portage/dev-tex/xmltex/files/format.xmltex.cnf xmltex pdftex language.dat &latex xmltex.ini pdfxmltex pdftex language.dat &pdflatex pdfxmltex.ini ^-- here (and jadetex similarly) This appears to confuse fmtutil: fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfxmltex -progname=pdfxmltex &pdflatex pdfxmltex.ini' ... This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded format=pdflatex) restricted \write18 enabled. This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) (INITEX) restricted \write18 enabled. ** ! End of file on the terminal... why? [...] fmtutil [ERROR]: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfxmltex -progname=pdfxmltex &pdflatex pdfxmltex.ini' failed It looks like fmtutil is passing the pdftex command line to system without escaping the '&', so it gets interpreted as the shell background control operator. Escaping the '&' with a backslash works: xmltex pdftex language.dat \&latex xmltex.ini pdfxmltex pdftex language.dat \&pdflatex pdfxmltex.ini ^-- here app-text/texlive-core-2015::gentoo was built with the following: USE="X cjk luajittex xetex -doc -source -tk"
Adding some more details, in part to make this report easier to find by pasting relevant portions of command output that others might be searching for. Apparently this causes texmf-update to not properly recreate jadetex.fmt upon upgrades, causing version mismatch errors (much like bug 456646): This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded format=pdfjadetex) restricted \write18 enabled. ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfjadetex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) Furthermore, re-merging jadetex can fail to install relevant files like /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfjadetex.fmt, since errors go unnoticed by the ebuild: Transcript written on jadetex.log. fmtutil [ERROR]: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx &pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini' failed fmtutil [ERROR]: `pdftex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx &latex jadetex.ini' failed fmtutil [INFO]: Failure during builds: 2 >>> Source compiled. This can lead to failing mktexfmt runs if someone tries to run pdfjadetex: kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdfjadetex.fmt … mktexfmt: running `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx &pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini' ... … mktexfmt [ERROR]: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx &pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini' failed mktexfmt [INFO]: Failure during builds: 1 … I can't find the format file `pdfjadetex.fmt'! All of this I recently observed in bug 555310 which appears to be essentially caused by this issue here. So thanks for this report, it helped me a lot finding the actual cause for all this mess. I hope we can get this fixed soon; adding backslashes to those files and performing a revbump should not require a user-supplied patch imo.
Can confirm: files/format.jadetex.cnf # JadeTeX jadetex pdftex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx \&latex jadetex.ini pdfjadetex pdftex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx \&pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini creates /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdfjadetex.fmt and builds fine with fontconfig (bug 55310).
Of course I mean bug 555310. By the way: is there an edit function to at least fix type errors, discovered after pressing the "Save changes" button?
Can somebody commit this fix? It's very tiresome to get failures in emerge -avuND @world every time fontconfig is updated (bug #555310). The fix works. I can commit it myself, but these packages are not mine.
*** Bug 555310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to Andrey Grozin from comment #4) > The fix works. I can commit it myself, but these packages are not mine. Just commit it and get kudos :)
ommit d4c91741323539e953077dc60166d10bf0e34c87 Author: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> Date: Sun Jan 22 15:30:31 2017 +0100 app-text/jadetex: properly escape & in fmtutil format.cnf files, bug #581302 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.3, Repoman-2.3.1 commit 2a81e34363911c49175fd5080442ad6f41bfd53e Author: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> Date: Sun Jan 22 15:29:35 2017 +0100 dev-tex/xmltex: properly escape & in fmtutil format.cnf files, bug #581302 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.3, Repoman-2.3.1 thanks!
*** Bug 606782 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
