texmfcnf.lua is broken for ConTeXt.

[amano.kenji]

I discovered that

having

return {
    content = {
        variables = {
            TEXMFSYSVAR     = "selfautoparent:/var/lib/texmf",
            TEXMFDIST       = "selfautodir:share/texmf-dist",
            TEXMFSYSCONFIG  = "selfautoparent:/etc/texmf",
        }
    }
}

in /usr/share/texmf-local/web2c/texmfcnf.lua overrides those variables in /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/texmfcnf.lua

However, `mtxrun --variables` prints

TEXMFSYSVAR
exp: selfautoparent:/var/lib/texmf
res: ./var/lib/texmf

What is "."? Does it mean the current working directory? Or, does it actually mean "/"?

------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, August 18th, 2022 at 12:25 PM, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info> wrote:


> > I meant doing it in texmfcnf.lua.
> 
> 
> Ah, ok. I don't know whether this would work. And it is up to the
> ConTeXt developers not us.
> 
> Best
> 
> Norbert
> 
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