[tex-k] Patch for a bug in mktexlsr.pl

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2024-06-26 at 11:54:17 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:

 > On Wed, 26 Jun 2024, Reinhard Kotucha via tex-k wrote:
 > > All Gentoo maintainers have to do is to instruct the TeX Live
 > > installer to install programs at /usr/bin instead of the default
 > > directory /usr/local/texlive/<year>/bin/<platform>.
 >
 > Probably not, since then the location of the texmf trees would be in /,
 > which is not good. Recompilation is necessary.

Hi Norbert,
you can try yourself:

   cp -p /usr/local/texlive/2024/bin/x86_64-linux/tex /usr/bin/

   /usr/bin/tex \\bye 2>&1 | tr : \\n

This lists all directories where kpathsea looks for texmf.cnf.
It searches many directories, among them are the most appropriate for
Linux distros,

   /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c
   /usr/share/texmf/web2c

The file texmf.cnf must only be adapted if there is no <platform>
directory.  With these default search paths many use cases are covered
without recompilation.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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