[tex-live] unix/windows inst, binaries

Fabrice Popineau fabrice.popineau at supelec.fr
Sat Oct 9 22:08:11 CEST 2004


> The problem is that mktexpk.exe does not recognise VARTEXFONTS  if it is
> set like $VARTEXMF/fonts. It should be set like t:/texmf-var/fonts,
> which means you cannot use same texmf.cnf for Windows and UNIX side.
> IMHO, it's wrong.

Ok, the problem is that when you map the Master/ dir to a drive, you get :

C:>kpsewhich --expand-var $SELFAUTOPARENT
t:/
C:>

Hence:
C:>kpsewhich --expand-var $VARTEXFONTS
t://texmf-var/fonts

which is ugly. However, I hesitate to change the code so that the first
command returns t: without a slash, because it is an invalid path
specification. On the other hand that would solve your problem.

Need to think about this one.

Fabrice



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