Re: [NTG-context] luatex-cache setup

I'm confused. my /etc/texmf.cnf file contains: TEXMFCACHE = /var/tex/cache and this directory exists but it is empty. Why is this being ignored? If I don't have a user-specific environment variable with that name, shouldn't the one from texmf.cnf be used? Furthermore, when I run kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFCACHE it shows that directory, but when I run texconfig, TEXMFCACHE does not appear under kpathsea variables. What is the problem? PS: I'm running context 2009.11.26-2, luatex 0.60.1-1build2, texlive-luatex 2009-10 on ubuntu 10.10. On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Marco wrote:

On 2011-04-12 Ernesto Posse wrote:

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Hello. I use a few tools from ConTeXt such as mptopdf, and whenever I run them they generate a 'luatex-cache' folder directly under my user folder, but this luatex-cache folder is not hidden. How can I configure ConTeXt or luatex to tell it where the cache folder should be? (I looked up the archives and docs but I didn't find anything about this.)

Point the environment variable TEXMFCACHE to a directory where the user has write access to.

Marco

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