kpathsea SELFAUTOLOC is wrong

[Ben Smith]

Reinhard,

echo $SELFAUTOLOC gives an empty line. There were no tex-related variables
defined when I ran env.

Vladimir, Here's the requested output:

[ben at tp4 ~]$ command -v pdflatex
/usr/bin/pdflatex
[ben at tp4 ~]$ command -v kpsewhich
/usr/bin/kpsewhich
[ben at tp4 ~]$ which pdflatex
/usr/bin/pdflatex
[ben at tp4 ~]$ which kpsewhich
/usr/bin/kpsewhich
[ben at tp4 ~]$ whereis pdflatex
pdflatex: /usr/bin/pdflatex
/usr/local/texlive/2020/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex
/usr/share/man/man1/pdflatex.1.gz
[ben at tp4 ~]$ whereis kpsewhich
kpsewhich: /usr/bin/kpsewhich
/usr/local/texlive/2020/bin/x86_64-linux/kpsewhich
/usr/share/man/man1/kpsewhich.1.gz
[ben at tp4 ~]$ env | grep -i tex
MANPATH=:/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/doc/man
INFOPATH=:/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/doc/info
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/ben/.emacs.d/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2020/bin/x86_64-linux

So I think your hunch is right! I have the arch texlive-bin package
installed in addition to the tug.org version. I just looked it up with
`pacman -Qi texlive-bin`, and it came as a dependency of xournalpp which I
installed before the tug.org version. Now, I just ran:

$ /usr/local/texlive/2020/bin/x86_64-linux/latex small2e

and it looks like it worked. Then, I changed my PATH-setting command to:

export
PATH="/home/ben/.emacs.d/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2020/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH"

So that the previous $PATH is at the back instead of the front... and then
running just:

$latex small2e

worked just fine! I'm not sure if i should uninstall the texlive-bin
package or not. I don't want to break xournalpp which I use for work every
day.

Thanks,
Ben Smith


On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 4:39 PM Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl at yandex.ru> wrote:

> Hello,
> ** Ben Smith <bensmithmath at gmail.com> [2020-09-18 14:31:42 -0700]:
>
> > Hi, I installed texlive 2020 last week on my thinkpad x1 yoga (gen 4)
> > last week, running arch linux. I used the download script from
> > tug.org. It successfully installed, but is not working. kpathsea seems
> > to be looking for files in the wrong place, and can't find texmf.cnf
> > or latex.fmt or anything. After some digging around I found that
> > SELFAUTOLOC is set to /usr/bin, but my whole texlive is installed in
> > /usr/local/texlive. (I get this by running kpsewhich
> > -var-value=SELFAUTOLOC)
>
> Please provide more details.
>
> Show output of (I assume that your shell is bash or zsh):
> $ command -v pdflatex
> $ command -v kpsewhich
> $ which pdflatex
> $ which kpsewhich
> $ whereis pdflatex
> $ whereis kpsewhich
> $ env | grep -i tex
>
> > On my older computer with texlive working, with everything installed
> > in the same directories, SELFAUTOLOC is
> > /usr/local/texlive/2020/bin/x86_64-linux. This computer is also
> > running arch linux, and I installed texlive from the tug.org script
> > three months ago.
>
> > It also seems like SELFAUTOPARENT and SELFAUTOGRANDPARENT are wrong.
>
> > texmf.cnf says that these variables are generated in
> > kpathsea/progname.c but I don't seem to have that file to check.
>
> I'm Archlinux user too and use TeX Live from TUG as well as has texlive*
> packages installed by pacman (Archlinux package manager).
>
> > Thanks!
> > Ben Smith
>
> > PS I tried to report a bug following the instructions at
> > https://tug.org/tetex/html/kpathsea/kpath_13.html#SEC13 but the
> > address tex-k at cs.umb.edu was not found.
>
> That is pitty but I doubt that the problem is with kpathsea.
>
> ---
> WBR, Vladimir Lomov
>
> --
> Toothpaste never hurts the taste of good scotch.
>
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