Bug#488038: texlive-base-bin: kpsewhere weirdness

[Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de>]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 21:38 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:

> $ for path in $kpsepath; do eval TEXMF=\$path kpsewhich texmf.cnf; done
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> 
> This behavior doesn't only show up with texmf.cnf, the same with
> fmtutil.cnf (with and without --format='web2c files').

Not for me:

rfstubne@nb-rfstubne:~$ touch texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
rfstubne@nb-rfstubne:~$ kpsewhere fmtutil.cnf
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
rfstubne@nb-rfstubne:~$ kpsewhere --format='web2c files'  fmtutil.cnf
/home/rfstubne/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

I also don' think that it is surprising that setting TEXMF does not
alter the texmf.cnf file found. AFAIK TEXMF is not used when looking
for texmf.cnf. Instead a compile-time path is used for texmf.cnf and
all other *.cnf files.

cherio
ralf

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