[tex-live] kpsewhich and texmf-var
Hartmut Henkel
hartmut_henkel at gmx.de
Fri Feb 2 09:11:44 CET 2007
Hi,
is there a trick to get the right path in these cases:
$ kpsewhich mktex.cnf
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf
$ kpsewhich texmf.cnf
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
$ kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
$ kpsewhich XDvi
$
$ kpsewhich pdftexconfig.tex
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
(there are a few more)
shouldn't they all be found under texmf-var? I thought maybe these are
the paths as seen by the tools that edit these files, but even then once
the file is existing in texmf-var, that one will be used. And obviously
the engines find the right file below texmf-var anyway.
Regards, Hartmut
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