Hi, I've been facing a lot of issues using latex under my user for quite some time and now I (think) finally get to the root of the problem.
Using latex under my normal user is soooo frustraiting, it take about 5 or 6 second *just* to start compiling it. I use to wonder what it was doing all that time, now I have some clues. Under root the compilation was automatic, less than a second. using this command: latex -kpathsea-debug=25 under boot I found that as my user it searchs *ALL* my home directory. This is where the output of the above command is different: AS ROOT kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/root/.texmf-config) => 1 kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/root/.texmf-config) => 1 kdebug:path element /root/.texmf-config => /root/.texmf-config/ kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/root/.texmf-config/ls-R) => 1 kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/root/.texmf-config/ls-r) => 1 AS MY USER kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/home/rodrigo//.texmf-config) => 1 kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/home/rodrigo//.texmf-config) => 1 kdebug:dir_links(/home/rodrigo/m) => -1 kdebug:dir_links(/home/rodrigo/r) => -1 . . . (all my directory hierarchy, a some of thousand of file) kdebug:path element /home/rodrigo//.texmf-config => /home/rodrigo/.texmf-config/ kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/home/rodrigo/.texmf-config/ls-R) => 1 kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/home/rodrigo/.texmf-config/ls-r) => 1 Why is that? How could I fix it? Regards -- Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
