Override file location

[Bob Howlett]

James Thompson wrote "I'd like to have texmf.cnf be the
unix copy and texmf_w32.cnf be the windows copy in the
same share/texmf/web2c/ directory." This sounds to me
like he wants to be able to change the name of the file
rather than its location. As far as I can see Fabrice's
answer doesn't address this.
But why not change the location rather than the name?

Bob Howlett

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Fabrice Popineau wrote:
> 
> * James Thompson <jamest@math.ksu.edu> writes:
> 
> > the web2c directory not the file itself.  Since the texmf.cf for
> > fpTeX wants drive letters and the unix version doesn't I assume they
> > can't be one and the same file so I'd like to have texmf.cnf be the
> 
> The trick is to use $SELFAUTO variables. On the TeX-Live CD, you have
> all the architectures and the setup is more or less :
> 
> % The main tree, which must be mentioned in $TEXMF, below:
> TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF;!!$VARTEXMF;!!$TEXMFLOCAL;!!$TEXMFMAIN}
> % A place for local additions to a "standard" texmf tree.
> TEXMFLOCAL = $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-local
> 
> % User texmf trees can be catered for like this...
> HOMETEXMF = $HOME/texmf
> 
> % A place where texconfig stores modifications (instead of the TEXMFMAIN
> % tree).  texconfig relies on the name, so don't change it.
> VARTEXMF = $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-var
> 
> % Now, list all the texmf trees. If you have multiple trees,
> % use shell brace notation, like this:
> %   TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$VARTEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
> % The braces are necessary.
> TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$VARTEXMF,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
> 
> % The system trees.  These are the trees that are shared by all the users.
> SYSTEXMF = $TEXMF
> 
> % The temporary area
> % TEMP = /var/tmp
> 
> % Where generated fonts may be written.  This tree is used when the sources
> % were found in a system tree and either that tree wasn't writable, or the
> % varfonts feature was enabled in MT_FEATURES in mktex.cnf.
> VARTEXFONTS = $VARTEXMF/fonts
> 
> % Where to look for ls-R files.  There need not be an ls-R in the
> % directories in this path, but if there is one, Kpathsea will use it.
> TEXMFDBS = {$HOMETEXMF;!!$VARTEXMF;!!$TEXMFLOCAL;!!$TEXMFMAIN}
> 
> Fabrice