Show quoted text>>>>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:25:18 -0400, "Yanick Champoux via RT" <bug-Pod-Manual@rt.cpan.org> said:
> On Tue Jul 17 00:44:45 2007, ANDK wrote:
>> Today I saw this:
>>
>> /home/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls/perl/ph8gSkA/perl-
>> 5.8.0@31615/bin/perl
>> Build --makefile_env_macros 1 test
>> t/01general.........# Testing Pod::Manual 0.05
>> pdflatex: option `-h' is ambiguous
>>
>> I killed this process for now. What gives?
> It's 'pdflatex'. You seem to have a different version than mine. On your
> machine, it must enter the interactive mode when the test do 'pdflatex
> -h' or when Pod::Manual does 'pdflatex -interactive-mode=batch'.
Show quoted text > Could you do a 'pdflatex -v' and 'pdflatex --help' (or whatever is your
> variant to get the version number and info about it)?
Yes, -h goes into interactive mode.
# pdflatex --help
Usage: pdfetex [OPTION]... [TEXNAME[.tex]] [COMMANDS]
or: pdfetex [OPTION]... \FIRST-LINE
or: pdfetex [OPTION]... &FMT ARGS
Run pdfeTeX on TEXNAME, usually creating TEXNAME.pdf.
Any remaining COMMANDS are processed as pdfeTeX input, after TEXNAME is read.
If the first line of TEXNAME is %&FMT, and FMT is an existing .fmt file,
use it. Else use `NAME.fmt', where NAME is the program invocation name,
most commonly `pdfetex'.
Alternatively, if the first non-option argument begins with a backslash,
interpret all non-option arguments as a line of pdfeTeX input.
Alternatively, if the first non-option argument begins with a &, the
next word is taken as the FMT to read, overriding all else. Any
remaining arguments are processed as above.
If no arguments or options are specified, prompt for input.
-enc enable encTeX extensions such as \mubyte
[-no]-file-line-error disable/enable file:line:error style messages
-fmt=FMTNAME use FMTNAME instead of program name or a %& line
-halt-on-error stop processing at the first error
-ini be pdfeinitex, for dumping formats; this is implicitly
true if the program name is `pdfeinitex'
-interaction=STRING set interaction mode (STRING=batchmode/nonstopmode/
scrollmode/errorstopmode)
-ipc send DVI output to a socket as well as the usual
output file
-ipc-start as -ipc, and also start the server at the other end
-jobname=STRING set the job name to STRING
-kpathsea-debug=NUMBER set path searching debugging flags according to
the bits of NUMBER
[-no]-mktex=FMT disable/enable mktexFMT generation (FMT=tex/tfm)
-mltex enable MLTeX extensions such as \charsubdef
-output-comment=STRING use STRING for DVI file comment instead of date
(no effect for PDF)
-output-directory=DIR use DIR as the directory to write files to
-output-format=FORMAT use FORMAT for job output; FORMAT is `dvi' or `pdf'
[-no]-parse-first-line disable/enable parsing of the first line of the
input file
-progname=STRING set program (and fmt) name to STRING
-recorder enable filename recorder
[-no]-shell-escape disable/enable \write18{SHELL COMMAND}
-src-specials insert source specials into the DVI file
-src-specials=WHERE insert source specials in certain places of
the DVI file. WHERE is a comma-separated value
list: cr display hbox math par parend vbox
-translate-file=TCXNAME use the TCX file TCXNAME
-8bit make all characters printable by default
-help display this help and exit
-version output version information and exit
Email bug reports to pdftex@tug.org.
# pdflatex --version
pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
kpathsea version 3.5.4
Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1997-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfeTeX copyright and
the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the files
named COPYING and the pdfeTeX source.
Primary author of pdfeTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
Kpathsea written by Karl Berry and others.
--
andreas
