[luatex] luatex-0.95.0 on Debian: fmtutil problem

[Norbert Preining]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017, Eduardo Ochs wrote:
> foundry.supelec.fr/frs/download.php/latestfile/6/0.95.0.tar.xz
> ./build.sh
> sudo mv -iv /usr/bin/luatex /usr/bin/luatex-orig
> sudo rm -v  /usr/bin/luatex

That does not work...

> # warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these
> directories:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk/web2c/share/texmf-local/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk/web2c/share/texmf-dist/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk/web2c/share/texmf/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk/web2c/texmf-local/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk/web2c/texmf-dist/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk/web2c/texmf/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk/share/texmf-local/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk/share/texmf-dist/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk/share/texmf/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk/texmf-local/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk/texmf-dist/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texk/texmf/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/texmf-local/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/share/texmf-local/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/share/texmf-dist/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/share/texmf/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texmf-local/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texmf-dist/web2c:
> #   /home/edrx/usrc/luatex/0.95.0/build/texmf/web2c.

To set up the whol kpathsea library, any program using kpathsea first
needs to find an *initial* texmf.cnf.

The program code hard codes several paths, as you see above, but none
of them coincides with the path in Debian/TeX Live.

Because binaries and the respective share/texlive dirs are not laid out
as expected by kpathsea (which practically expects an installation of
TeX Live  ROOT/bin ROOT/texmf-dist ..), I apply the following patch
during building of the binaries, including luatex:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-tex/texlive-bin.git/tree/debian/patches/debian-builtin-searchpath

If you want to do it without patching, you need to add a
texmf.cnf *in* /usr/bin (link to the one in texmf-dist/web2c/ should
suffice).

Norbert

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