Gerben Wierda wrote:
> On May 10, 2006, at 19:13, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>
>> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>>
>>> Hans,
>>>
>>> do I need to re-report that format generation with texmfstart
>>> newtexexec --make is still broken on OS X (I'll check on my linux box
>>> later)? I still get these monstrous paths like
>>>
>>> TeXExec | tex engine path: .:/Users/tas/texmf/web2c//:!!/usr/local/
>>> teTeX/share//share/texmf-local/web2c//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share//
>>> share/texmf/web2c//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share//share/texmf-dist/web2c//
>>> pdfetex
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> btw, i cannot test the mac here since the machine is broken (does not
>> start up and i already wasted half a day on it)
>>
>
> It seems like not the real paths are taken but only the main path and
> texmf-local, texmf-dist and such are hard coded subdirectories. This is
> one reason why I do not use the standard directories (like texmf-local
> and texmf-dist, but texmf.local, texmf.gwtex, texmf.tetex), to catch
> path `hard coding' errors as soon as possible. Another possibility
> (also a type of hard coding error) is parsing the wrong texmf.cnf file
> yourself instead of asking for the right paths by using kpsewhich.
>
indeed texexec is configured to bypass kpse (i played with the kpse
library and the interface is too unstable; also, depending on the
situation, a ruby version is faster and more suitable for serving
multiple trees esp when i enable the run-as-service option)
one can test with:
set KPSEFAST=no
(maybe i should only make that one available when one installs a
minimal-conforming tree)
i'll add the gw specific paths to the cnf location method (esp the way
kpse locates its cnf files is not really well defined and standardised
since kpse itself uses this autoparent stuff);
btw, doesn't gwtex set the TEXMFCNF env variable?
Hans
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