[tex-live] LaTeX takes ages to complete.

[Marc van Dongen]

Dear forum,


I installed TeX Live (2007) a few months ago and it has been working like a
charm. However, since recently LaTeX is requiring a lot of time to complete
as it builds hyphenation trees and does lots of other irrelevant (?) things.
Also it is creating a local directory called ./~/.texlive2008/ in each
directory where I run LaTeX; this never happened before.

This all started after I tried to install MP-Lib. However, I am not sure
if this is the cause: when I asked Taco Hoekwater about it he told me he
couldn't see any reason.

Anyway, when I look at my configuration, which is included below, I see
lots of things which have not been explicitly set by me:
 TEXMF={~/.texlive2008/texmf-config ....
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If there's anybody who knows a solution or point me to the information
which is required to solve this then this will be much appreciated.


Thanks in advance.

Regards,


Marc van Dongen

=========================== version information ==========================
teTeX-src release:   (info not available)
teTeX-texmf release: (info not available)

==================== binaries found by searching $PATH ===================
PATH=/home/dongen/bin/:/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux:/home/dongen/bin/:/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux:/home/dongen/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/local/mysql:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin:/usr/ilog/OPLSt37/bin/i86_linux2_glibc2.3_gcc3.2/:/home/dongen/Programming/Tool:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/ilog/OPLSt37/bin/i86_linux2_glibc2.3_gcc3.2/:/home/dongen/Programming/Tool:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/lib/php
kpsewhich: /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/kpsewhich
updmap: /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/updmap
fmtutil: /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/fmtutil
texconfig: /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/texconfig
tex: /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/tex
pdftex: /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/pdftex
mktexpk: /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/mktexpk
dvips: /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/dvips
dvipdfm: /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/dvipdfm

=========================== active config files ==========================
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/dvipdfm/config/config
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/dvips/config/config.ps
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/web2c/mktex.cnf
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/web2c/updmap.cfg
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/xdvi/XDvi
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

============================= font map files =============================
psfonts.map: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map
pdftex.map: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map
ps2pk.map: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/ps2pk.map
dvipdfm.map: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvipdfm/updmap/dvipdfm.map

=========================== kpathsea variables ===========================
TEXMFMAIN=/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf
TEXMFDIST=/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist
TEXMFLOCAL=/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local
TEXMFSYSVAR=/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var
TEXMFSYSCONFIG=/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config
TEXMFVAR=~/.texlive2008/texmf-var
TEXMFCONFIG=~/.texlive2008/texmf-config
TEXMFHOME=~/texmf
VARTEXFONTS=/home/dongen/LaTeX/Fonts
TEXMF={~/.texlive2008/texmf-config,~/.texlive2008/texmf-var,~/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist}
SYSTEXMF=/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var:/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf:/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local:/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist
TEXMFDBS={!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc}
WEB2C={~/.texlive2008/texmf-config,~/.texlive2008/texmf-var,~/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist}/web2c
TEXPSHEADERS=.:{~/.texlive2008/texmf-config,~/.texlive2008/texmf-var,~/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist}/{dvips,fonts/{enc,type1,type42,type3}}//
TEXCONFIG={~/.texlive2008/texmf-config,~/.texlive2008/texmf-var,~/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist}/dvips//
ENCFONTS=.:{~/.texlive2008/texmf-config,~/.texlive2008/texmf-var,~/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist}/fonts/enc//
TEXFONTMAPS=.:{~/.texlive2008/texmf-config,~/.texlive2008/texmf-var,~/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist}/fonts/map/{kpsewhich,pdftex,dvips,}//

==== kpathsea variables (from environment only; ok if no output here) ====
TEXINPUTS=.:/home/dongen/LaTeX/styles//:/home/dongen/LaTeX/mpost/marc//:

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