[fpc-devel]compilation of fpc pdfs 1.1 fails

[Marco van de Voort]

> I tried to create fpc rpms for the 1.1 and got the following:
> 
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1)
> (./user.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}
> LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
> ngerman, i
> talian, nohyphenation, loaded.
> (./preamble.inc
>  
> ! LaTeX Error: \usepackage before \documentclass.
>  
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>  ...
>                                                    
> l.4 \usepackage{
>                 html}
> ?

Here they build fine. You could try to delete preamble.inc, maybe that one
isn't updated properly. 

Some other common caveats: (though I haven't seen the above error before)
- versions, specially when the TeX versions are CVS and not release versions.
- permissions (if e.g. preamble.inc is not writable, odd things can happen)
- strings buffer is too small ("TeX capacity exceeded") -> increase the 
   limits in texmf.cnf appopriately. (string hash size I believe)
- There seem to different packages synth with the same name.
- the mdwtools version is also sensitive.