Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 01/20/11 10:16 CST:
> Bruce, you should not have to set anything in the environment. I cannot
> understand why you are seeing what you are. I'm going to unpack the
> texlive tarball and compare my .cnf files to ones in my installation.
rml@rmlinux: ~/build/texlive-20100722-source > diff -Nau
texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
--- texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf 2010-05-30 16:52:39.000000000 -0500
+++ /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf 2010-12-31 18:44:37.000000000 -0600
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
% A place for local additions to a "standard" texmf tree.
% This tree is not used for local configuration maintained by
% texconfig, it uses TEXMFCONFIG below.
-TEXMFLOCAL = $SELFAUTOPARENT/../texmf-local
+TEXMFLOCAL = $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-local
% TEXMFSYSVAR, where texconfig-sys stores variable runtime data.
% With teTeX-3.0 or later, this must be set.
@@ -136,13 +136,13 @@
% Where generated fonts may be written. This tree is used when the sources
% were found in a system tree and either that tree wasn't writable, or the
% varfonts feature was enabled in MT_FEATURES in mktex.cnf.
-VARTEXFONTS = $TEXMFVAR/fonts
+VARTEXFONTS = /var/lib/livetex/fonts
% On some systems, there will be a system tree which contains all the font
% files that may be created as well as the formats. For example
% TEXMFVAR = /var/lib/texmf
% is used in many distros. In this case, set VARTEXFONTS like this
-% VARTEXFONTS = $TEXMFVAR/fonts
+% VARTEXFONTS = /var/lib/livetex/fonts
% and do not mention it in TEXMFDBS (but _do_ mention TEXMFVAR).
%
% Remove $VARTEXFONTS from TEXMFDBS if the VARTEXFONTS directory is below
rml@rmlinux: ~/build/texlive-20100722-source > kpsewhich --expand-var
'$SELFAUTOPARENT'
/usr/share
The only changes I see are the ones in the existing sed command in the
instructions. I'm baffled. Perhaps you have an old ./texmf dir in your
home directory or env vars set? Please issue these commands:
kpsewhich --expand-var '$SELFAUTOPARENT'
kpsewhich --expand-var '$TEXMFCNF'
My results are:
rml@rmlinux: ~/build/texlive-20100722-source > kpsewhich --expand-var
'$SELFAUTOPARENT'
/usr/share
rml@rmlinux: ~/build/texlive-20100722-source > kpsewhich --expand-var
'$TEXMFCNF'
{/usr/share/texmf/bin,/usr/share/texmf,/usr/share}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,}/web2c}
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Randy
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