Bug#409547: [Vladimir Volovich] tex-common: TEXMFCNF setting in 85Misc.cnf

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> Dear Vladimir, 
>
> please use the list address for communication with the TeX maintainers,
> thanks. 

Now this is a bug report, please keep the bugnumber address in Cc - you
can drop any other addresses.

> - On the other hand, on a TeX Live based system:
>
> access("/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf", R_OK) = 0
> stat64("/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=25611, ...}) = 0
> access("/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/texmf.cnf", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf", O_RDONLY) = 3
>
>   So there's no actual duplication in TeX Live. The informational
>   setting in texmf.cnf in tex-common should probably  be corrected to
>   match the texlive case
>
>> is it because of a compile-time default for TEXMFCNF?

Just to remember this, I send this to the bug report.  Finally, it needs
to be fixed in tex-common, but not before the settings in texlive are
settled.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)