[tex-live] TeX Live 2010 : odd behaviour after moving to spare system on removable disc
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Nov 7 23:44:51 CET 2011
On 2011-11-07 at 22:05:55 +0000, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>
>
> Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>
> > Good! They usually cause more problems than they solve. Well, the
> > question is: Did you set TEXMFLOCAL as an environment variable on your
> > *old* system
>
> No ! I simply did a standard (for me) install, carrying
> out my standard customisations at install time; what
> surprised (and still surprises) me is that I don't
> seem able to change these customisations retrospectively
> using TLMGR.
>
> Thank you for your other suggestions, Reinhard : as I have
> never understood (and perhaps never will) "$SELFAUTOPARENT"
> (is this a Unix term that is, and should be, meaningless
> gibberish to the rest of us ?!), I feel on dangerous ground
This is a kpathsea variable and explained in the docs. Try
kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOLOC
kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTODIR
kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT
They are all relative to the location of the binaries.
> using it; if I /were/ to risk using it, how would you
> cast my present "TeXmf.cnf" (which, I discovered retrospectively)
> /is/ in I:\TeX\Live\2010 but fails to declare itself as such
> because Windows believes it to be a "SpeedDial" file for which,
> despite having been told to /always/ shew extensions, and
> /never/ to hide them, Windows (XP/Pro;SP3) /insists/ on hiding
> the extension :-(
It doesn't matter what Windows believes, all which matters is that
kpsewhich texmf.cnf
finds the correct file.
BTW, you can also use Emacs as a file manager. It always shows the
extensions. I've put one for Windows on CTAN:
http://ctan.org/tex-archive/support/win32-emacs-auctex
Regards,
Reinhard
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