[XeTeX] How to make XeTeX find the texmf.cnf file?

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Nov 14, 2016, at 9:19 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Nov 14, 2016, at 9:06 AM, George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Nov 13, 2016, at 7:16 PM, Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I just added to my profile:
>>> setenv PATH "$PATH":"/usr/local/texlive/2016"
>>> 
>>> If I understand well, it should solve the problem... but it does not at the moment.
>>> 
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> NO. The path needs to point to the binaries not the base of the distribution tree.
>> 
>> Try doing
>> 
>> setenv PATH "/Library/TeX/texbin:$PATH"
>> 
>> and see if that works.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>> 
>> 
>> The OP is using macOS, where the default user shell is bash.   Normally, setenv is used with csh.
>> If the OP is using csh (not unexpected for a long-time TeX user) there may be some obscure 
>> configuration glitches.  Here, a tcsh user gets normal behaviour from MacTeX and macports' texlive.    
>> Macports' also provides TeXShop (versions 3.75 or 2.47).  Lots of moving parts and very little
>> hard data here.
>> 
>> -- 
>> George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
>> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> The two engine files that he was looking for actually use csh (they go back quite a long time---old macOS versions used csh as the default).
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Howdy,

Sorry, that should have been tcsh, not csh.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)