[tex-live] mptopdf problem: texmf.cnf not found.

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Aug 30 16:02:29 CEST 2010


On 30 August 2010 Byung-Jae Kwak wrote:

 > Hi!
 > 
 > I have TeX Live 2009 and MinGW/MSYS installed on 64 bit Windows 7 system.
 > 
 > My TeX Live install seems to work fine except that I cannot use mptopdf.
 > For example, if I try to create a pdf file from a metapost eps file
 > named logo.1,
 > I get the following error:
 > 
 > ---- error message start
 > 
 > d:\work\doc\figures> mptopdf logo.1
 > warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these
 > directories:
 > c;C:/msys/1.0/texlive/2009/bin/win32;c;C:/msys/1.0/texlive/2009/bin;c;C:/msys/1.0/texlive/2009;c;C:/msys/1.0/texlive/2009/bin/win32/share/texmf-local/web2c;c;C:/msys/1.0/texlive/2009/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c;c;C:/msys/1.0/texlive/2009/share/texmf-local/web2c;c;C:/msys/1.0/texlive/2009/bin/win32/texmf-local/web2c;c;C:/msys/1.0/texlive/2009/bin/texmf-local/web2c;c;C:/msys/1.0/texl
 > [...]
 > 
 > It appears that somehow, MSYS interferes with my TeX Live install,
 > and the search path is prefixed with "/msys/1.0".

Please check whether TeX related environment variables are set whithin
the MSYS environment.  There shouldn't be any.  Try:

   set | grep -i TEX

Regards,
  Reinhard

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