Re: 85Misc

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 11:18:33AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> From: Hans Ginzel <hans@matfyz.cz>
> Subject: 85Misc
> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 19:09:46 +0200
> 
> >    there is two times path
> > 	/usr/share/texmf/web2c
> > in the /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc in line
> > 	TEXMFCNF = ...
> 
> It seemed that the original texmf.in contained the
> following line;
> 
> TEXMFCNF = {$SELFAUTOLOC,$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,}/web2c};$TETEXDIR;$TEXMF/web2c;@web2c@
> 
> and the last two elements $TEXMF/web2c;@web2c@ would
> generate the duplicated /usr/share/texmf/web2c perhaps.
> 
> I will fix this in the next upload and thanks for your
> advice.

Please don't "fix" this.  If you read the comments before the variable
definition, this variable is not actually read at run-time, only at
compile time.  So it is best if it left exactly as it is, unless, for
some reason, the original texmf.cnf.in in the source code needs
changing.

   Julian

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