Bug#358330: [tex-live] KPSE_DOT in fmtutil: Why set to `pwd`?

[Julian Gilbey]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:14:51PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Vincent, what's the output of:
> >   kpsewhich --expand-var='$TEXMFCNF'
> > and do you have the environment variable TEXMFCNF set?
> 
> I have no TEX.. variable set :
> danjean at atsina:~$ sudo su
> root at atsina danjean# export | grep TEX
> 
> And still the different behavior weather KPSE_DOT is set or not :
> root at atsina danjean# kpsewhich --expand-var='$TEXMFCNF'
> {/usr/bin,/usr,/}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,}/web2c}::/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c
> root at atsina danjean# export KPSE_DOT="/users/huron/danjean"
> root at atsina danjean# kpsewhich --expand-var='$TEXMFCNF'
> /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
> {/usr/bin,/usr,/}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,}/web2c}::/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c
> 
> For my personnal information, what is the real problem ?
> 1) KPSE_DOT should not be set to PWD in fmtutil ?
> 2) kpsewhich should not look at $KPSE_DOT directory ?
> 3) other ?

That's just plain weird.  Well, Frank's sent another couple of
experiments for you to try :)

   Julian