fixing kpathsea

[Zdenek Wagner]

st 13. 11. 2019 v 13:29 odesílatel N. Andrew Walsh
<n.andrew.walsh at gmail.com> napsal:
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> Hi George,
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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 1:24 PM George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The problem with your PATH is that the distro programs (e.g., from /usr/bin) will be used because that entry is earlier in the PATH.
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> That's fine, I think, because I have mktexlsr.pl in the distro-provided file tree, right? I just don't understand why format.texlive-basic.cnf can't find it. Is there some variable or path I can add somewhere that can ensure that it gets found?
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mktexlsr.pl is in scripts/texlive which is never in PATH. It is called
from another binary using a relative path to its location. Once you
invoke something partially from your TL from TUG and partially from
your Linux distro, the SELF location will be wrong and mktexlsr.pl
will be searched for in a wrong place. If you do not put the path to
your TL to the beginning of PATH, you will get a lot of strange errors
caused by the very same reason.

> I have the "local" texlive specified in the settings for the programs that need it (ie, atom), so setting the system PATH to use the system texlive directories is fine.
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> Thanks for the help,
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Zdeněk Wagner
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