[tex-live] unix/windows inst, binaries

[Maksym Polyakov]

Meanwhile it worth to mention this as a 'feature'

Fabrice Popineau wrote:

>>The problem is that mktexpk.exe does not recognise VARTEXFONTS  if it is
>>set like $VARTEXMF/fonts. It should be set like t:/texmf-var/fonts,
>>which means you cannot use same texmf.cnf for Windows and UNIX side.
>>IMHO, it's wrong.
>>    
>>
>
>Ok, the problem is that when you map the Master/ dir to a drive, you get :
>
>C:>kpsewhich --expand-var $SELFAUTOPARENT
>t:/
>C:>
>
>Hence:
>C:>kpsewhich --expand-var $VARTEXFONTS
>t://texmf-var/fonts
>
>which is ugly. However, I hesitate to change the code so that the first
>command returns t: without a slash, because it is an invalid path
>specification. On the other hand that would solve your problem.
>
>Need to think about this one.
>
>Fabrice
>
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