Hi, All this confusion with the formats and their paths is why my teTeX installation page starts with: "De-install any existing teTeX" That really is the least confusing option, IMO. If you really do not want to do that (because you only ever use pdftex, for example) simply always copy the formats generated by texexec over the ones generated by texconfig/fmtutil. Taco Hans Hagen wrote:
I can easily fix it by deleting the cont-en and mptopdf formats made by texconfig, but that is a hack -- a symptom of its hack nature being that the next time I run texconfig, the shadowing formats will return to web2c/.
well, either use texconfig to generate context formats or use texexec --make ; texconfig does not support the $engine subpath feature (too difficult to implement) but we need this in order to distinguish between formats for pdftex, aleph and xetex