Bug#594743: texlive-binaries: pdftex slow to generate sources when $HOME contains a trailing "/".

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norbert,

Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org> wrote:

> When $HOME contains a trailing "/", pdftex takes an absolute age to generate
> a PDF file from a .tex source file.  

what was the upstream fix you were talking about?  We still have in
testing:

$ grep ^[^%].*\$HOME /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf 
TEXMFHOME = $HOME/texmf
TEXMFVAR = $HOME/.texmf-var
TEXMFCONFIG = $HOME/.texmf-config

Which seems to cause the same problem.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg