On 5/29/06, Jean Magnan de Bornier
Hi all, I just made on my linux-gentoo box a fresh install using (exactly) this howto:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation
But using "texmfstart texexec toto" gives "texmfstart not found"; I tried with the full path of texmfstart.rb and get "permission denied"; so I go into the directory /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby and see that many scripts are not executable for others (regular users); so I say "chmod +x *" in that directory and then "texmfstart texexec toto" still doesn't work but it actually works with the full path; however my path is correctly set for context afaik.
On my systems, teTeX-3 does not include a texmfstart executable. One approach is to copy the texmfstart.rb script to "texmfstart" in a directory on your PATH. Earlier, I posted a script I have been testing to the list. The script uses kpsewhich to find the .rb or .pl script corresponding to the name used to invoke the script, and then runs perl or ruby with the full path to the script. This saves having to copy the scripts everytime you update context.
I tried to set $RUBYLIB to this directory but it doesn't change anything.
RUBYLIB is set in the "setuptex" script from the minimal linux. For
my simple tasks
it doesn't appear to be needed, but setting it shouldn't hurt.
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George N. White III