Default location of TEXMFLOCAL with alternate installation path

Norbert Preining norbert at preining.info
Wed Jun 8 16:01:39 CEST 2022


Hi Magnus,

> In install-tl there is an attempt to check if TEXMFLOCAL is configured to the default location. To do this an abs_path of TEXDIR/../texmf-local is calculated. However, this results in an undefined variable since that path does not exist in my case.
> 
> I'm attaching a small patch that resolves this issue which simply checks if the variable is defined (and thus abs_path was successful).

That is strange, since we are supposed to create this very path
TEXDIR/../texmf-local beforehand, so it should be exist.

Could you provide a way to reproduce this, like a profile that does
exhibit this problem?

Best

Norbert

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