TEXMFDBS and TEXMFHOME

[Christian Mondrup]

Den 17.04.2020 kl. 15.40 skrev Philip Taylor:
> Christian Mondrup wrote:
> 
>> How can I append to the value of an assigned tex conf variable like 
>> TEXMFDBS? in case I should need to do so.
> 
> Without looking back to see which O/S you are using ... 

linux (Mint 19.3)

> In Windows, you 
> can evaluate the variable by surrounding it with per-cent symbols and 
> then appending (or pre-pending), as in :
> 
> C:\  Set TEXMFDBS = %TEXMFDBS%;D:\
> C:\  Set TEXMFDBS = D:\;%TEXMFDBS%

I tried something like that

TEXMFDBS={!!$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFDBS}

and got a large amount of warnings:

reccmo at Mint19:BWV530 [22] > tlmgr check -v texmfdbs
warning: kpathsea: variable `TEXMFDBS' references itself (eventually).
...

-- 
Christian Mondrup
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