[tex-k] Difficulties with texmfvar feature

[Ralf Stubner]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 17:21 +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> In addition, IMO mktexnam should try to create TEXMFVAR if
> it does not exist yet, similar to updmap's behaviour. I am attaching a
> patch against 
> 
>      mktexnam $Id: mktexnam,v 1.30 2004/12/28 20:55:56 olaf Exp $
>      kpathsea version 3.5.4
> 
> as distributed with teTeX 3.0. Comments?

BTW, since mktexnam sources mktex.opt, $MT_MKTEXDIR is defined which I
think should be used instead of $MT_TEXMFMAIN/web2c/mktexdir. I am
attaching an updated patch.

cheerio
ralf



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        # Some additional uglyness handles the case where $TEXMFVAR exists
        # but $TEXMFVAR/fonts doesn't (yet).
        if test "x$USE_TEXMFVAR" = x1; then
!         : ${MT_TEXMFVAR=`kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMFVAR'`}
          MT_DESTROOT=$MT_TEXMFVAR/fonts
          if test -z "$MT_TEXMFVAR"; then
            # Path expansion of $TEXMFVAR was empty.
--- 145,151 ----
        # Some additional uglyness handles the case where $TEXMFVAR exists
        # but $TEXMFVAR/fonts doesn't (yet).
        if test "x$USE_TEXMFVAR" = x1; then
!         : ${MT_TEXMFVAR=`kpsewhich --var-value=TEXMFVAR`}
          MT_DESTROOT=$MT_TEXMFVAR/fonts
          if test -z "$MT_TEXMFVAR"; then
            # Path expansion of $TEXMFVAR was empty.
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*** 158,166 ****
            # De we have write access and permission?
            kpseaccess -w "$MT_TEXMFVAR" || FALLBACK=1
            test -w "$MT_TEXMFVAR" || FALLBACK=1
!         else
            # TEXMFVAR defined and exists, but it is not a directory?
            FALLBACK=1
          fi
        else
          # Do we have write access and permission?
--- 158,169 ----
            # De we have write access and permission?
            kpseaccess -w "$MT_TEXMFVAR" || FALLBACK=1
            test -w "$MT_TEXMFVAR" || FALLBACK=1
!         elif test -e "$MT_TEXMFVAR"; then
            # TEXMFVAR defined and exists, but it is not a directory?
            FALLBACK=1
+         else
+           # TEXMFVAR defined but does not exist, try to create it
+           MT_FEATURES=none "$MT_MKTEXDIR" "$MT_TEXMFVAR" || FALLBACK=1
          fi
        else
          # Do we have write access and permission?