Re: metapost rebuilds mpost.mem everytime

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hm,

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> has the problem b) (kpsewhich not finding formats in engine dirs)
> already been discussed and solved for TeXLive?
>
> b) $engine doesn't seem to be set all the time:
>
> # kpsewhich latex.fmt
> # kpsewhich  --debug=8 latex.fmt
> [...]
> kdebug:Search path for fmt files (from texmf.cnf)
> kdebug:  = .:/home/frank/.texmf-config/web2c/unset:[...]
>
>    It seems as if kpsewhich needs an -engine switch?

I just installed upstream TeXLive 2007 with install.sh, and the debug
output still says that ${engine} expands to unset, but it does find the
format:

# kpsewhich latex.fmt
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt

It seems even the TEXFORMATS line needs a change:

-TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}
+TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}//

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