Bug#390349: Bug#388399: FTBFS problems on alpha, mips[el]: Please help debugging
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 21:13 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>>
>> I didn't check the mktexnam code - but I'm a little surprised here. I
>> wasn't aware of the test for SYSTEXMF, but in case the test "fails",
>> i.e. the input is from a private TEXMF tree, shouldn't the output go to
>> TEXMFVAR ($HOME/.texmf-var), too? And isn't VARTEXFONTS the fallback in
>> that case too, as it is if the input comes from a system tree?
>
> I don't think it would be good, if ouput, which has been produced based
> on a font in private TEXMF tree, ended up in the system wide font cache.
> One possible problem are two users that have *differing* fonts but with
> *equal* names in there private TEXMF trees. There are possibly other
> reasons why mktexnam (line 138--185) distinguishs system trees from the
> rest.
Sorry to be unclear. With "shouldn't" I did not mean "isn't it supposed
to", but "doesn't it follow".
Checking.
Okay, you are right, indeed this check is already done. So we could
gain some additional security by making sure that the SYSTEXMF variable
is not set in the user environment, but only read from the system-wide
texmf.cnf.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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