texmfcnf.lua is broken for ConTeXt.

Norbert Preining norbert at preining.info
Sat Aug 20 15:08:18 CEST 2022


> I suspect either mtxrun or texmfcnf.lua refuses to accept "/" as selfautoparent.
> Since mtxrun of TexLive OS package is in /usr/bin, selfautodir should be /usr, and selfautoparent should be /.

You can easily check by
	kpsewhich -var-value SELFAUTOPARENT
asuming that kpsewhich and mtxrun are in the same directory.

But then, the semantics of texmfcnf.lua is complete unknown to me.
I don't know what Hans is doing there.

Best

Norbert

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