[fptex] Adding $HOMETEXMF to TEXMF slows down compilation

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Joes Staal wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to have my local files in the search path for tex,
> so I defined in texmf.cnf
> 
>   TEXMF = {!!$VARTEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN,$HOMETEXMF}
> 
> However, this slows down the texing of my documents considerably.
> Why is that? And how do I solve this?

There is no ls-R file for HOMETEXMF, and if that is on a networked drive
it will be slow (is here).  So add !! and index that tree (directly or
indirectly via mktexlsr) and it will speed up.

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