[tex-k] fmtutil --noformaterror
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Sat Jul 3 01:00:49 CEST 2010
$ fmtutil --byfmt foobar_not_defined_format
$ echo $?
0
Yes, that silence always bothered me. I think it should output a message:
fmtutil: doing nothing, no such format: foobar_not_defined_format
$ fmtutil-sys --noformaterror --byengine ptex
fmtutil: no format depends on engine `ptex'.
$ echo $?
0
That looks fine to me as far as functionality, but please
1) put the help line after --no-engine-subdir, and
2) change the option name to --no-error-if-no-format.
(Can't think of anything shorter that is descriptively accurate.)
Thus:
--no-error-if-no-format exit successfully if no format is selected
Thanks much,
k
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