[tex-live] Dead cycle occure when run fmtutil-sys --all under windows.

[Norbert Preining]

On Di, 05 Aug 2008, hongyi.zhao wrote:
> When I run mtutil-sys --all, the command looks run ceaseless and dead cycle occured, who can give me some hints?

Bummer ... could that be the jadetex/latex/jadetex/latex/jadetex/latex
format creation cycle???

We had that in Debian in 2007 AFAIR. Frank hacked together some patches
to fmtutil-sys, but I am not sure.

The problem is that:
- jadetex should be built before latex
- jadetex asks for the latex format
- latex format is built but saved into a non searched place
- jadetex is tried again, again building latex
- latex format is built but saved into a non searched place
- jadetex is tried again, again building latex
- latex format is built but saved into a non searched place
...

you got the point. 

Karl, Jonathan, everyone with fmtutil mastery, can we fix that please?

Zhao, can you please send a log file of that problem?

Best wishes

Norbert

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