fixing kpathsea

Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe at math.utah.edu
Fri Nov 8 15:43:45 CET 2019


To debug the Gentoo mktexlsr.pl missing file problem, run

	strace -f -o foo.strace tlmgr ....

You can then search for calls to open and access in the foo.strace
log; they will show you where files are being looked for, and tell you
whether they are found or not.

It could be that you have a $HOME/.texliveYYYY directory that contains
additional configuration files that are leading searches astray.  If
so, try temporarily renaming $HOME/.texliveYYYY to, e.g.,
$HOME/.texliveYYYY-hide, and then rerun tlmgr.

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