Bug#358330: [tex-live] KPSE_DOT in fmtutil: Why set to `pwd`?

[Frank Küster]

Julian Gilbey <jdg at polya.uklinux.net> wrote:

>> So this means that on my system KPSE_DOT is not searched for cnf files,
>> but it seems to be searched for TEXMF trees?  kpsewhere doesn't show the
>> local copy, either.
>
> That's a bit weird.  And what's it doing traversing the /home/frank
> tree, anyway?
>
> What's your output of kpsewhich --expand-var='$TEXMFCNF' ?

$ kpsewhich --expand-var='$TEXMFCNF'
{/usr/bin,/usr,/}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,}/web2c}::/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c
$ kpsewhich --expand-braces='$TEXMFCNF'
/usr/bin:/usr:/:/usr/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/share/texmf-local/web2c://share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/texmf-local/web2c://texmf-local/web2c:/usr/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c://share/texmf/web2c:/usr/bin/texmf/web2c:/usr/texmf/web2c://texmf/web2c::/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c

That's independent of the setting of KPSE_DOT, whereas the error message
isn't. 

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)