[tex-live] getnonfreefonts --help

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 21:21:04 CET 2009


getnonfreefonts -d -l
DEBUG: Environment variable TMP not set.
DEBUG: Environment variable TEMP not set.
DEBUG: Environment variable TMPDIR not set.
DEBUG: Internal variable SYSTMP set to '/tmp'.
DEBUG: Search for kpsewhich in PATH.
DEBUG: Found /usr/local/bin/kpsewhich.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/local/bin/getnonfreefonts line 177.
DEBUG: TEXMFHOME=''.
Use of uninitialized value $retlist[0] in string at
/usr/local/bin/getnonfreefonts line 179.
DEBUG: sys=false.
DEBUG: INSTALLROOT=''.
DEBUG: Internal variable INSTALLROOT converted to ''.
! ERROR: The variable TEXMFHOME is not set.

BTW, I noticed that running install-tl downloaded already compiled
binaries.  I am used to building everything from source.  Has tl
switched to a policy of downloading binaries, even on linux systems?
Do I have a choice?

On 1/28/09, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:
> Neal Becker a écrit :
>> Yes, here it is again:
>>
>> KPATHSEA_DEBUG=72 getnonfreefonts -l
>
> I meant 'getnonfreefonts -d -l'. Now that we know it is not a kpse
> problem, KPATHSEA_DEBUG is no more interesting. But the debug messages
> from getnonfreefonts itself may bring some more information.
>
> Manuel.
>


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