[tex-live] getnonfreefonts --help

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 20:25:19 CET 2009


Let's back up.  I'm getting the same result for
  kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME
and
   kpsewhich --expand-path \$TEXMFHOME

kpsewhich --expand-var \$TEXMFHOME
/home/nbecker/texmf

kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME
/home/nbecker/texmf


On 1/28/09, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:
> Neal Becker a écrit :
>> kpsewhich -a texmf.cnf
>> /usr/share/texlive-2008/texmf.cnf
>> /usr/share/texlive-2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
>>
>> [nbecker at nbecker5 ~]$  kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME
>> /home/nbecker/texmf
>>
> Perfect. Really strange that
> 	kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME
> works while
> 	kpsewhich --expand-path \$TEXMFHOME
> doesn't, according to one of your preceding messages.
>
> I can't understand that one, but I think it could be the root of the
> present problem.
>
> I don't think it is a shell problem, but just to be sure, how about
> 	kpsewhich --expand-path '$TEXMFHOME'
> ?
>
> Now, if really the problem is with --expand-path, and has nothing to do
> with the shell, while --var-value works correctly, comparing the output of
>
> KPATHSEA_DEBUG=-1 kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME
>
> and
>
> KPATHSEA_DEBUG=-1 kpsewhich --expand-var \$TEXMFHOME
>
> might be useful.
>
> Manuel.
>
>


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