[tex-live] Issues with texlive locating necessary files

[Zdenek Wagner]

015-03-14 4:47 GMT+01:00 Mirko Vogt <tex at nanl.de>:

> Hello Norbert,
>
> On 03/14/2015 03:08 AM, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 14 Mar 2015, Mirko Vogt wrote:
>>
>>>    /usr/bin/mktexfmt: line 1027: //texmf-dist/texconfig/tcfmgr: not found
>>>
>>
>> Do you have a proper texmf-dist tree installed?
>>
>> Building and installing the sources *does*NOT* suffice to get a
>> running system. You need to have texmf-dist from SVN.
>>
>
> I'm not sure about that - what I checked out is
>
>   svn://username:password@tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source
>
> If I understand it well, this is the rot of problem, you have just the
sources, not the build environment. You need the whole trunk.


Zdeněk Wagner
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> and a <make install> seems to install everything I need.
> If not, I'm not sure what two trees you're referring to.
>
>  THen you have to put the binaries into
>>         texmf-dist/../bin/ARCH/
>> (depending on your compile option without the ARCH).
>>
>
> Nothing bin-like under texmf-dist/, but a regular <make install> puts
> quite some binaries into $PREFIX/bin (mktex*, pdftex, etc.) where
> prefix in my case is "/usr".
>
> Is texmf-dist/../bin/ARCH/ what I'm missing from the texmf-dist thingy?
>
>
>> In principle any tex program that uses kpathsea searches first for
>> the main texmf.cnf via a compiled in list of dirs, that also
>> includes some relative to the location of the binary.
>>
>> Use kpsewhich -show-path texmf.cnf to see where the files are searched.
>>
>> If you want to search different ones, you need to set that before
>> compiling.
>>
>
> The texmf.cnf doesn't seem to be the problem (in case I got you and the
> errors right) -
> AFAIK it wasn't "not found" at any time.
> < kpsewhich -show-path texmf.cnf > includes the path where it actually is:
> /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c
>
> What's missing according the error messages is "fmtutil.cnf" (besides
> "pdftex.fmt").
>
>
>>  Question 1) Is setting $TEXMFMAIN as an environment variable the proper
>>> way? How do other distributions achieve the prefix-path being set
>>> correctly?
>>>
>>
>> Installing a proper texmf-dist tree and setting the proper search path
>> before compiling, if necessary.
>>
>
> Following up on that: Where does the "texmf-dist" come from?
> And - as mentioned above - to me it doesn't seem the search path is wrong.
>
>
>>  Question 2) What is necessary to make the map file being found by tcfmgr?
>>>
>>
>> a proper kpathsea setup, that is, the main texmf.cnf needs to be found.
>>
>
> As stated above, search path seems right and texmf.cnf is located under an
> included path.
>
>
>>
>> I suggest *looking* into the packaging of TeX Live for Debian/Fedora/Suse
>> etc to see how it is done there.
>>
>
> Unfortunately I can't really match the debian *.orig.-src-archives to the
> source found in SVN.
> Still not sure, where the stated texmf-dist (or any other required) tree
> comes from, if not from above mentioned SVN repository.
>
> Thanks a lot
>
>  Norbert
>>
>
>   mirko
>
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