[tex-live] Issues with texlive locating necessary files

[Norbert Preining]

On Sat, 14 Mar 2015, Mirko Vogt wrote:
>   /usr/bin/mktexfmt: line 1027: //texmf-dist/texconfig/tcfmgr: not found

Do you have a proper texmf-dist tree installed?

Building and installing the sources *does*NOT* suffice to get a 
running system. You need to have texmf-dist from SVN.

THen you have to put the binaries into
	texmf-dist/../bin/ARCH/
(depending on your compile option without the ARCH).

In principle any tex program that uses kpathsea searches first for
the main texmf.cnf via a compiled in list of dirs, that also 
includes some relative to the location of the binary.

Use kpsewhich -show-path texmf.cnf to see where the files are searched.

If you want to search different ones, you need to set that before 
compiling.

> Question 1) Is setting $TEXMFMAIN as an environment variable the proper
> way? How do other distributions achieve the prefix-path being set correctly?

Installing a proper texmf-dist tree and setting the proper search path
before compiling, if necessary.

> Question 2) What is necessary to make the map file being found by tcfmgr?

a proper kpathsea setup, that is, the main texmf.cnf needs to be found.


I suggest *looking* into the packaging of TeX Live for Debian/Fedora/Suse
etc to see how it is done there.



Norbert

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