On Wed, Oct 29 2008, Tobias Burnus wrote: > I have a scenario which fails with the current mechanism - even if > following the sym links worked. Assume that a user only puts a texmf.cnf > under "$HOME/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf". That file will be used by "luatex", > "pdftex" etc. but "luatools" will still resolve > /usr/share/texmf/.../luatools.lua if it follows $SELF. > > Thus I'm in growingly in favour of using KPSE (just) for finding > "texmf.cnf" and "texmfcnf.lua"; for all other purposes including > seaching files whatever other method can be used.
Would KPSE find texmfcnf.lua in $HOME/texmf/web2c ? >From one of your previous messages, I understand that it would *not* find it. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
