[fptex] Adding $HOMETEXMF to TEXMF slows down compilation

[Joes Staal]

At 14:59 8/29/2003 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>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.

If I follow your instructions, my own files are not found:

I did:

TEXMF = {!!$VARTEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$HOMETEXMF}

and ran texmklsr:

mktexlsr: Updating c:/Program Files/TeXLive/texmf-var/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating c:/Program Files/TeXLive/texmf-local/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating c:/Program Files/TeXLive/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating E:/Joes/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating c:/Program Files/TeXLive/texmf/ls-R...

I am not using a networked drive.
I am using fptex 0.7-beta2

Joes.