[tldistro] initial search path for texmf.cnf

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Wed Aug 3 05:46:29 CEST 2011


Hi everyone, 

(hoping Peter is around here)

I have a slight problem in getting kpse library find the initial texmf.cnf.
THe Debian dist layou is quite standard:
	/usr/bin/tex (and all the other progs)
	/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
But it seems that kpsewhich only searches for it in
	/nonesuch
# kpsewhich -debug=-1 -show-path texmf.cnf
kdebug:Search path for cnf files (from compile-time paths.h)
kdebug:  = /nonesuch
kdebug:  before expansion = /nonesuch
...

Actually we have a patch that adapts
	texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf
to the paths used in Debian, and in TL2009 this file was used to create
the include file
	paths.h
(as far as I remember).

Is there a similar way to get this in TL2011?

Thanks and all the best

Norbert
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