[tex-live] Separating texmf trees. Problem with hard coded(?) path.

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Mon Mar 3 17:32:37 CET 2003


On Mon, 03 Mär 2003, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> It looks like the name texmf is hard-coded somewhere in kpse. This  
> seems to be the case, because when I move texmf.bin to texmf,  

OF COURSE!!! The texmf.cnf file cannot find itself without a hard coded
path! The path of texmf.cnf IS hardcoded as
	SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
or something similar. Setting TEXMFCNF in this file is just funny, but
useless. Now if you do not have the above it uses the hard coded built
in stuff, otherwise the settings from
SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf.

Best wishes

Norbert

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