fixing kpathsea

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Fri Nov 15 11:52:41 CET 2019


What does 
   which kpsewhich
Say?

You can try 
  kpsewhich -d-1 -all texmf.cnf
But this gives lots of debug output.
There are better settings for -d but I don't know them by heart and I'm on the mobile only.

On November 15, 2019 7:49:38 PM GMT+09:00, "N. Andrew Walsh" <n.andrew.walsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Norbert,
>
>On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:46 AM Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>
>wrote:
>
>> Still the TEXMFROOT part is wrong.
>>
>> Please see the second email about
>>    kpsewhich -show-path .cnf
>>
>
> # kpsewhich -all texmf.cnf
>/[$HOME]/tex-local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf
>/usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf
>
>This is why I suspect the gentoo devs might be right, that something is
>wrong with how my kpathsea is working. If I su into a root user, the
>path
>given doesn't include the local TUG TL, but kpsewhich still finds that
>one
>first, and not the system one. Where else might this be set?
>
>Cheers,
>
>A


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