[tex-live] Fatal format file error; I'm stymied

Georg Graf guruvienna at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 2 21:40:12 CEST 2013


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> From: guruvienna at hotmail.com
> To: karl at freefriends.org; tex-live at tug.org
> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 21:23:35 +0200
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] Fatal format file error; I'm stymied
>
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>> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 18:33:52 +0000
>> From: karl at freefriends.org
>> To: guruvienna at hotmail.com; tex-live at tug.org
>> Subject: Re: [tex-live] Fatal format file error; I'm stymied
>>
>> export TEXMFVAR=
>>
>> unset TEXMFVAR would be much better. (Or, if we're talking about an
>> initialization file, just refrain from setting it at all.)
>
> Thanks for the hint!
> And what about setting it e.g. TEXMFVAR = $HOME/.texmf-var?
>
> Georg

I see, this is in ~/.texlive2013/texmf-var by default, clearly no need to change this.

sorry for the noise, Georg

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>
>>
>> An envvar whose value is the empty string is very different (and
>> unusual) from an envvar which is not set at all. Although we've tried
>> to make many of our programs treat them as equivalent, for convenience,
>> I'm sure there are plenty of cases left where they are not.
>>
>> Best,
>> k 		 	   		  


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