[XeTeX] How to make XeTeX find the texmf.cnf file?

[George N. White III]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Nov 13, 2016, at 7:16 PM, Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I just added to my profile:
> > setenv PATH "$PATH":"/usr/local/texlive/2016"
> >
> > If I understand well, it should solve the problem... but it does not at
> the moment.
> >
>
> Howdy,
>
> NO. The path needs to point to the binaries not the base of the
> distribution tree.
>
> Try doing
>
> setenv PATH "/Library/TeX/texbin:$PATH"
>
> and see if that works.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>


The OP is using macOS, where the default user shell is bash.   Normally,
setenv is used with csh.
If the OP is using csh (not unexpected for a long-time TeX user) there may
be some obscure
configuration glitches.  Here, a tcsh user gets normal behaviour from
MacTeX and macports' texlive.
Macports' also provides TeXShop (versions 3.75 or 2.47).  Lots of moving
parts and very little
hard data here.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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