[tex-live] Windows (MSYS2) : kpathsea does not find texmf.cnf

[Zdenek Wagner]

2016-06-09 4:38 GMT+02:00 Vincent Torri <vincent.torri at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 4:32 AM, Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>
> wrote:
> > Dear Vincent,
> >
> >> There is no other option, like setting an environment variable (TEXMF*
> >> environment variable) ? Otherwise, that's very annoying as it force me
> >> to install all the program using my library in that directory.
> >
> >
> >> so I have texmf.cnf in
> >> E:/Documents/programmes_x86/texlive/2016
> >
> >
> > Define the env variable TEXMFCNF as
> > TEXMFCNF=E:/Documents/programmes_x86/texlive/2016;
> >
> > The trailing semicolon is important. If the semicolon does not exist,
> > texmf.cnf is searched only in E:/Documents/programmes_x86/texlive/2016.
>
> 1) I've just tried this. My program seems to hang.
>
> 2) I tried E:/Documents/programmes_x86/texlive/2016: (with : at the
> end) and I get
>

Unix-like forward slashes instead of windows-like backslashes are probably
OK but what matters is the unix-like colon at the end, it certailny does
not work. You must use a semicolon in Windows because a colon is used to
separate a drive letter.

>
> warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these
> directories: E;E:/Documents/MSYS2/Documents/programmes_x86/texlive/2016.
>
> Vincent Torri
>



Zdeněk Wagner
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