Re: [AUCTeX] Error during "make" of AUCTeX - "I can't find the default format file!"

[Ralf Angeli]

* Daniel Zimmer (2006-02-02) writes:

> Unfortunately I get an error during "make" of the AUCTeX installation 
> under Windows in MSYS resulting that preview-latex doesn't work at all.
>
> Here are the error messages:
>
> Descending into /c/tmp/auctex-11.82/preview
> make[1]: Entering directory `/c/tmp/auctex-11.82/preview'
> (cd latex ; make all)
> make[2]: Entering directory `/c/tmp/auctex-11.82/preview/latex'
> /c/Programme/MiKTeX/texmf/miktex/bin/tex '\nonstopmode \input bootstrap.ins'
> This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (MiKTeX 2.4)
> initexmf: The input file for "plain.tex" could be found.
> I can't find the default format file!
> cannot make plain.fmt

Looks like your TeX system installation is broken.

Does it work if you put the lines

foo
\end

into a file and run

tex <yourfile>

from the command line?

If it doesn't you could ask on a MikTeX-related list how this can be
fixed.  You will probably have to run initex for redumping the
formats; but I am no expert on TeX systems.

-- 
Ralf