[tex-live] More trouble with TeXLive 2008 preview on Windows

[Vasile Gaburici]

Okay, I figured out how you thought the user should have done this:
I've added a C:/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua. Well I tried
C:/texlive/2008/texmfcnf.lua first, but it is ignored. Inside I put:

return { TEXMFCACHE =  'C:/tlhome/$USERNAME/.texlive2008/texmf-var' }

and now I get:

LuaTools | loading configuration file C:/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua
LuaTools | loading C:/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnfShould I
create the cache path C:/tlhome/Vasile/.texlive2008/texmf-var?
[yes|no] [no] yes
LuaTools | preparing configuration for
C:/tlhome/Vasile/.texlive2008/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4ac8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tma
LuaTools | saving configuration in
C:/tlhome/Vasile/.texlive2008/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4ac8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tma
LuaTools | compiling configuration to
C:/tlhome/Vasile/.texlive2008/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4ac8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tmc

Much more sane.

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, that's easy enough to change, but on XP one must additionally
> change TEXMFHOME as well since %HOMEPATH% has spaces in it too; on
> Vista %HOMEPATH% doesn't have blanks in it. I used
> C:/tlhome/$USERNAME, so it would still be different for each user. (I
> saw that %SystemRoot% is $SystemRoot to TeXLive, so I put $USERNAME
> for %USERNAME%). But changing it in the installer wasn't enough...
>
> C:\tlhome> luatools --generate
>
> LuaTools | error unable to locate texmfcnf.lua
> LuaTools | loading C:/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> LuaTools | preparing configuration for Documents and
> Settings/Vasile/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4ac8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tma
> LuaTools | saving configuration in Documents and
> Settings/Vasile/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4ac8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tma
> LuaTools | compiling configuration to Documents and
> Settings/Vasile/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4ac8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tmctexluac:
> cannot open and: No such file or directory
>
> LuaTools | compiling failed for configuration, deleting file Documents
> and Settings/Vasile/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4a
> c8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tmc
> LuaTools | locating list of /.texlive2008/texmf-config
> LuaTools | locating list of /.texlive2008/texmf-var
>
> As you can see it keeps trying (and failing) to use "Documents and
> Settings", but goes for the current directory for .texlive2008. It
> looks like luatools ignores C:/texlive/2008/texmf.cnf completely.
> Unfortunately that's where TEXMFHOME gets set by the installer. So, I
> manually changed  C:/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf to read:
>
> TEXMFHOME = C:/tlhome/$USERNAME
> TEXMFVAR = C:/tlhome/$USERNAME/.texlive2008/texmf-var
> TEXMFCONFIG = C:/tlhome/$USERNAME/.texlive2008/texmf-config
>
> I ran luatools again, and... I got the exact same errors. Then I
> changed LuaTools C:/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/context.cnf to read
> HOMETEXMF     = C:/tlhome/$USERNAME, and this helped a little since it tried:
>
> LuaTools | loading C:/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> LuaTools | preparing configuration for Documents and
> Settings/Vasile/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4ac8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tma
> LuaTools | saving configuration in Documents and
> Settings/Vasile/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4ac8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tma
> LuaTools | compiling configuration to Documents and
> Settings/Vasile/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4ac8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tmctexluac:
> cannot open and: No such file or directory
>
> LuaTools | compiling failed for configuration, deleting file Documents
> and Settings/Vasile/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4ac8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tmc
> LuaTools | locating list of C:/tlhome/Vasile/.texlive2008/texmf-config
> LuaTools | locating list of C:/tlhome/Vasile/.texlive2008/texmf-var
> LuaTools | locating list of C:/tlhome/Vasile
>
> As you can see it accesses C:/tlhome/Vasile/.texlive2008/ this time,
> but it still doesn't use it; it still goes for "Documents and
> Settings" to compile stuff... At this point I have no ~ in any .cnf
> file (I grepped). So I looked in the .lua files. There's a bunch of
> them since instead writing a single function to deal with paths and ~
> substitution there's copy & pasted code everywhere. Anyway, it seem
> that the problem is in lines like 'cachepath = os.getenv("TEXMFCACHE")
> or os.getenv("HOME") or os.getenv("HOMEPATH") or os.getenv("TMP")'...
> since os.getenv("HOMEPATH") gives "\Documents and Settings\Vasile". I
> removed os.getenv("HOMEPATH") and now it goes for the next one, %TMP%,
> which works:
>
> C:\tlhome> luatools --generate
>
> LuaTools | error unable to locate texmfcnf.lua
> LuaTools | loading C:/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> LuaTools | preparing configuration for
> C:/DOCUME~1/Vasile/LOCALS~1/Temp/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4ac8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tma
> LuaTools | saving configuration in
> C:/DOCUME~1/Vasile/LOCALS~1/Temp/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4ac8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tma
> LuaTools | compiling configuration to
> C:/DOCUME~1/Vasile/LOCALS~1/Temp/luatex-cache/context/3236d28ff38909cc68507fe0979fbbf0/trees/a9242cc4ac8b58f8a1b613c7103ba2f1.tmc
>
> The real bug seem that lua stuff assumes os.getenv("TEXMFCACHE") will
> actually work on Windows. But it seems that setting stuff in .cnf
> files doesn't set environment variables on Windows, even inside Lua.
> I'll let you guys sort it out from here...
>
>
> BTW, since I paid close attention to the installation this time I
> noticed a couple of harmless warnings:
> tar: Unknown file type '2' for
> texmf-dist/doc/latex/marvosym/mac/README, extracted as normal file
> tar: Unknown file type '2' for
> texmf-dist/doc/latex/marvosym/vtex/README, extracted as normal file
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Staszek Wawrykiewicz <staw at gust.org.pl> wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Vasile Gaburici wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, I was aware of the contextgarden wiki, that's where I've got
>>> the commands from :) The problem is that texlive 2008 (on Windows)
>>> defaults to paths that do have spaces in them, i.e. "Program Files".
>>> Perhaps this should be changed for the release...
>>
>> Sorry, we cannot change that for so many reasons (please read The TL
>> Guide). If the user have write permissions elsewhere, he can change
>> TLROOT to eg. d:\tl\2008
>>
>> --
>> Staszek Wawrykiewicz
>> StaW at gust.org.pl
>>
>>
>>
>