pdfTeX in texlive missing pdftex.fmt

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Aug 28, 2014, at 6:18 PM, Jim Graham <spooky130u at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 05:50:57PM -0400, Lawrence Vel?zquez wrote:
>> On Aug 28, 2014, at 5:15 PM, Jim Graham <spooky130u at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Could you provide a test file? I have a pdftex.fmt, but it seems to be
>> a transient file. It doesn't belong to any ports.
> 
> It's part of texlive.  I just went to CTAN, to just build it myself
> and skip the MacPorts version, and found this, which confirms what
> I remembered from years ago:
> 
>   "All current free TeX distributions, including TeX live, MacTeX and
>   MiKTeX include pdfTeX"

The texlive-basic port already provides the pdfTeX software. That does not mean that it provides "pdftex.fmt". Like I said, it's a transient file. You should be able to regenerate it.

http://verahill.blogspot.fr/2012/04/solved-latex-bug-tcfmgr-config-file.html

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