[tex-live] unix/windows inst, binaries
Maksym Polyakov
polyama at myrealbox.com
Thu Oct 7 17:01:08 CEST 2004
Hi, Fabrice
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:20:56AM +0200, Fabrice Popineau (FP) wrote:
FP> > -- when running latex etc. first time, format file is not generated
FP> as
FP> > on solaris, mktexfmt worked. However mktexfmt did not work for mf -
FP>- did
FP> > not find mf-nowin.
FP> Oops. :-(
FP> I remove mf-nowin. There is no point under windows to have a separate
FP> mf-nowin. I need to reinstate a copy of mf.exe -> mf-nowin.exe .
FP> > -- windvi (after I added tl90bzip2.dll and generated mf.base) created
FP> > .pk files in current dir.
FP> In current dir ? How strange. What is TEMP/TMP (env var) set to?
The problem is that mktexpk.exe does not recognise VARTEXFONTS if it is
set like $VARTEXMF/fonts. It should be set like t:/texmf-var/fonts,
which means you cannot use same texmf.cnf for Windows and UNIX side.
IMHO, it's wrong.
--
MP
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