[tex-live] Solved: the preforce problem I had. Request

Olaf Weber olaf at infovore.xs4all.nl
Sun Feb 8 18:43:24 CET 2004


Thomas Esser writes:

>> eh .. i don't know the details but are you saying that texmf.cnf is 
>> generated from the source tree? if so, whow ...

> tex/kpathsea/texmf.in in the source tree contains most of the final
> texmf.cnf file. Basically, the texmf.cnf is made from texmf.in by putting
> the right installation prefixes (@texmf@, @vartexfonts@, @prefix@) into
> some of the variables. The reason is that you can decide about these
> variables at configure-time and automatically get a matching config file
> installed into your texmf tree.

Actually, I'd like to be able to have the texmf.cnf distributed with
the texmf tree, instead of carrying the texmf.in in the kpathsea tree.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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