[tex-live] texconfig / texmf.cnf incompatibility in TeXLive 2004?

Artemio Gonzalez Lopez artemio at fis.ucm.es
Tue Apr 6 14:03:02 CEST 2004


I have recently downloaded the TeXLive 2004 install CD image dated Feb. 
16, 2004
(test-texlive2004-inst-20040216.iso), and installed it on my Mac OS X 
10.3.3 box.
The installation (via the install-tl.sh script) fails at the 
post-install phase (see my previous post).
I think the problem is that texconfig, which has been carried over 
without changes from the
TeXLive 2003 release, is not compatible with the latest texmf.cnf 
shipped with TeXLive 2004. More specifically, texconfig fails with the 
following error:

Error: kpsewhich cannot find config file of pdftex (pdftex.cfg)

The reason why pdftex.cfg is not found is, I think, that texconfig 
contains the following line

pdftex_conf=`kpsewhich -progname=pdftex --format=tex pdftex.cfg`

In the 2003 release, texmf.cnf had the following entry:

TEXINPUTS.pdftex  =  .;$TEXMF/{pdftex,tex}/{plain,generic,}//

so that pdftex.cfg was found (its path is 
$TEXMF/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg)

The new (2004) texmf.cnf, on the other hand, changes this to

TEXINPUTS.pdftex  =  .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}//

so that obviously $TEXMF/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg is not found. (The 
new entry

PDFTEXCONFIG = .;$TEXMF/pdftex/{$progname,}//

which would also find pdftex.cfg, is disregarded by the "old" 
texconfig.)

There is a similar problem with map files, namely updmap (run at the 
end of the installation)
fails to find most map files:

Scanning for LW35 support files
updmap: map file `dvips35.map' not found.
updmap: map file `pdftex35.map' not found.
updmap: map file `dvipdfm35.map' not found.
updmap: map file `ps2pk35.map' not found.

Scanning for MixedMap entries:
updmap: map file `bsr-interpolated.map' not found.
updmap: map file `bsr.map' not found.
updmap: map file `eurosym.map' not found.
updmap: map file `hoekwater.map' not found.
updmap: map file `tipa.map' not found.
updmap: map file `ttcmex.map' not found.
updmap: map file `xypic.map' not found.
updmap: map file `yhmath.map' not found.

Scanning for Map entries:
updmap: map file `charter.map' not found.
updmap: map file `context.map' not found.
updmap: map file `lm.map' not found.
updmap: map file `marvosym.map' not found.
updmap: map file `pazo.map' not found.
updmap: map file `pxfonts.map' not found.
updmap: map file `qcmr.map' not found.
updmap: map file `tabvar.map' not found.
updmap: map file `txfonts.map' not found.
updmap: map file `uaq.map' not found.
updmap: map file `ugq.map' not found.
updmap: map file `zpeu.map' not found.

I think the problem might be that the map files are located at 
$TEXMFDIST/fonts/map//, but
TEXCONFIG is now defined as $TEXMF/dvips//, instead of the former 
$TEXMF/{dvips,fonts/{map,enc}/{dvips,}}//.

I am probably missing something obvious here, and would really 
appreciate if somebody
more knowledgeable than I (i.e, almost anybody :-) would help me figure 
out what's going on.

Cheers,

Artemio Gonzalez-Lopez
artemio at fis.ucm.es
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