TeX Live 2019 / TikZ

Fri Sep 13 19:05:00 GMT 2019

On 9/9/2019 2:53 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> I had a chance to take a quick look, and this is a known problem:
>> Thanks, I hadn't found this for whatever reason.
>>> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/473365/why-is-pgf-3-1-not-compatible-with-tex
>>>> I suspect there's been a new release of PGF that fixes this. I'll check on it
>> and release an appropriate update when I return home.
[...]
> But the main issue really is that TikZ/PGF need eTeX to work correctly

Right. The latest release of PGF fixes the problem by issuing an appropriate 
error message instead of an obscure one:
$ tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2019/Cygwin) (preloaded format=tex)
**\input tikz
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz.tex
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/basiclayer/pgf.tex
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.tex
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-common.tex
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-common-lists.tex))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-plain.def
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/atbegshi.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.code.tex
! Package PGF Error: PGF requires etex in extended mode.
I'll update texlive-collection-pictures shortly.
Ken
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