On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 02:30:32PM -0000, Norbert Preining wrote: > in ~/texmf.cnf?? If yes, it does matter. How do you expect that tex is > finding that? Should it search the whole hard disk, or the whole $HOME > (which might be on NFS and be huge ..). > (...) > Thanks, I was asking for the setting of TEXMFCNF, not its meaning.
Sorry. I was confused, lacking the full context of the original bug report. I have learnt things later, but I did not see how to add comments to the bug. Anyway, this is what I have TEXMFCNF=.:/home/georg/share/texmf/web2c: /home/georg/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > > However, I found the bug. tex-live appears to put all the ls-R > > index files in a central directory, and consequently they cannot > > be updated by a user. It follows that under tex-live, a user > > texmf tree has to be searched explicitely without using an ls-R > > index. > > What? The Debian/Ubuntu packages put ls-R files for /var/lib/texmf, > /usr/share/texmf, /usr/share/texmf-texlive under /var and create links. > Nothing else is done. > > If you call > mktexlsr ~/texmf > then you will get > ~/texmf/ls-R > > The problem might be that there was an out-dated ls-R file NOT listing > the texmf.cnf file. Right? In this case, please remove ls-R files in ~, > they are useless. Why is ls-R useless under ~? 1. Removing ls-R makes no difference. 2. Remaking ls-R makes no difference. 3. Changing texmf.cnf to ignore ls-R does make a difference. The only hypothesis that I can see to explain this behaviour is that ls-R at the root of the texmf tree is not found. (Note that this is still where mktexlsr places it.) I am not sure how much speed one would gain by using ls-R, but it does work satisfactorily when I don't use it. The undocumented behaviour is annoying, but I can live with it. The previous setup had worked for years with tetex under previous Ubuntu releases, other linux distroes and solaris. I am convinced that the texmf.cnf was read all the time, but that the texmf tree was not searched and the ls-R was not found. It would be very odd if ls-R is used to locate texmf.cnf, as texmf.cnf defines whether ls-R should be used or not. Thanks for your time. :-- George -- latex: multiple texmf.cnf files do not work correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186164 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
