On 15 December 2015 at 13:47, Bruce Boghosian wrote:
$ export | grep TEX declare -x TEXMFCNF="/sw/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf"
You need to remove that environmental variable.
In case that it was deliberately set by Fink, please file a bug report to Fink because they should not do that. (If you added that variable yourself, then remove it from .bash_profile or wherever you set it.)
Mojca