[tex-live] Kpathsea cannot find mktex.opt

[Élie Roux]

Le 09/07/2013 17:54, Akira Kakuto a écrit :
>> Yes it *has* to be quoted because it is *one* argument that should
>> be passed to mf.
>
> I'm not on Unix, so I cannot test, but I think the following works in
> usual shells:
> - cmd="$MF \mode:=$MODE; mag:=$MAG; nonstopmode; input $NAME"
> + cmd="$MF \\mode:=$MODE; mag:=$MAG; nonstopmode; input $NAME"

It doesn't, no: it start mf, does nothing and wait. It doesn't 
understand that \mode:=$MODE; mag:=$MAG; nonstopmode; is one argument, 
not several.

Even if I remove the spaces, it doesn't help... I really think quotes 
are necessary...

Thank you,
-- 
Elie