I'm trying to set up a local MusixTeX installation in my home directory at
my university. I use the TEXINPUTS and MFINPUTS environment variables, and
kpathsea can find the musixtex macro and font files.
In any case, $TEXINPUTS tells tex, directly to scan the directories for the files it is searching. This is bypassing kpathsea and therefore it is no wonder that TeX/MF put their output in the actual directory because the files found through $TEXINPUTS and $MFINPUTS are regarded as "non-installed" rather volatile stuff under change. Some TeXinstallations permit extensions somewhere like /usr/local/texmf or /usr/local/share/texmf but mostly you will have to ask the system administrator. If that is you, type 'texconfig conf' (as root) and you should see a list of configuration parameters. Among them something like
=========================== Kpathsea variables ===========================
TEXMF={/var/root/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/share/texmf}
(that's what it looks on my machine). In these directories you can put your stuff and then type 'texconfig rehash' (again as root). Starting texconfig als interactive programm (without command line parameter) you'll find also an option to set font creation directories. But I didn't try this so far, thus I cannot give further hints on that.
regards Bernhard
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