Bug 157312

Summary: tetex-3.0-18 ist broken -> pdfetex is invoked, where it is not allowed
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Christoph Pfeiler <christoph-erdmann.pfeiler>
Component: ConsoleAppsAssignee: Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.0   
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Description Christoph Pfeiler 2006-03-10 21:03:54 UTC
With the recent update, tetex is broken. The "ordinary" latex etc. has gone, but a link to pdfetex is created instead.

This leads to the following misbehaviour:

- If You invoke latex with a properly formatted latex file, You get an error message, because documentclass is not known by pdfetex

- If You are a little bit more tricky, You remember Lamport or Knuth and You invoke tex \&latex, You get

> tex \&latex
This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4)
---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

You have to recreate Your format files!

(or wait for a proper update ;-))
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2006-03-13 10:27:17 UTC
What are you doing?  The correct format for latex is dumped by pdfetex.
This is the NEW behaviour since teTeX 3.0 and I'll gona not changed that :)
Read in /usr/share/texmf/doc/tetex/TETEXDOC.pdf the section

    `4.5 pdfetex: the new default TeX engine'

E.g.:

/suse/werner> latex
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
werner/Tests>

werner/Tests> latex bspbrief.tex 
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
(./bspbrief.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
[...]
No file bspbrief.aux.
[1] )
Output written on bspbrief.dvi (1 page, 860 bytes).
Transcript written on bspbrief.log.
werner/Tests>