[fptex] Re: texlive on WinXP (not an answer)

[Fabrice Popineau]

* Lars Madsen <daleif@imf.au.dk> writes:

> the only place that works for systemwide use of packages is
> installation in texmf\tex\latex.

I can't comment without having a log showing what's happening but...

> And the texmf.cnf file is missing.

This is simply impossible because kpathsea won't work without this
file. Your problem is that the shell explorer is hiding the file
extensions (.cnf). Moreover, it happens that .cnf is used by windows
for dialups. But you can safely ignore this fact, configure the
options in the shell explorer to show the file extensions and you will
find texmf-var/web2c/texmf.cnf which is your configuration file.

Put some bar.tex file here : texmf-local/tex/latex/foo/bar.tex
Run : mktexlsr
Then trace the search :

set KPATHSEA_DEBUG=-1
set KPATHSEA_DEBUG_OUTPUT=err.log
kpsewhich -progname=latex bar.tex

If the bar.tex file is not found, then send me the err.log file.

Fabrice