Re: Installing web2c-7.3.3 failed

[Jerome Benoit <JGMBenoit at wanadoo dot fr>]

Hi !

Are you talking about the Web2C distributed with the Cygwin teTeX ?

Jerome BENOIT

Wooserk Kim wrote:

> I installed the latest version of cygwin (26 May 2001) into win98,
> then tried to install web2c-7.3.3. But, the job ends with the following
> message:
>
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> ...
> ...
> ...
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/wooserg/web2c-7.3.3/texk/web2c'
> ../kpathsea/kpsewhich --progname=tex plain.tex cmr10.tfm >/dev/null || make prereq-lose >/dev/null
> You seem to be missing input files necessary to make the
> basic formats (some or all of: --progname=tex plain.tex cmr10.tfm).
> Perhaps you've defined the default paths incorrectly, or
> perhaps you have environment variables set pointing
> to an incorrect location.  See ../kpathsea/BUGS.
>
> If you simply do not have the files, you can
> retrieve a minimal set of input files from
> ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/texklib.tar.gz, mirrored on
> CTAN hosts in systems/web2c.
> make[4]: *** [prereq-lose] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [prereq-check] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/wooserg/web2c-7.3.3/texk/web2c'
> make[2]: *** [tex.fmt] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/wooserg/web2c-7.3.3/texk/web2c'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wooserg/web2c-7.3.3/texk'
> make: *** [all] Error 1
>
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>
> Any idea to overcome this? Please inform me...