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Tobias Burnus wrote:
I agree about the KPSE shortcomings, however, just for finding "texmf.cnf" KPSE should be good enough. (OK, finding "texmfcnf.lua" does not seem to work well as the "lua" extension means that "web2c" is not searched.)
but using kpse would mean initializing it and that means loading the file database which can be pretty large for a non minimal tex tree so that's a no-go
I think the algorithm used to find the texmf.cnf file is different and thus a different file is found. Your algorithm never checks "$HOME/texmf/web2c" where a user could have put his file. For pdftex $HOME/texmf/web2c has a higher precedence than /usr/share/texmf/web2c. I assume that the same thing is true for "luatex". In any case the luatex binary contains the following string:
what files are looked for depends also on env settings; but anyhow, at some point mkiv/luatex might drop the cnf file
/etc/texmf:/etc/texmf/web2c:/var/lib/texmf/web2c:{~/texmf,!!/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf}/web2c
hm, where is that set? hard coded in the binary? but concerning the cnf file, luatex/mkiv does not use that many paths (less fonts for instance)
Using KPSE the same string seems to be used to check for the config file. But "luatools" uses a completely different method. As long as the user does not have its own texmf.cnf there is no problem. (Should be the case most of the time.) However, as soon as (s)he has, luatex and "luatools" access different files!
well, if something is hard coded in the binary then i'm not going to bother about it too much; if something is determined by env vars, we can see what makes sense to support; also, an installer that does things differently from the standard tex live setup can also take care of setting a few variables
That is done differently: luatools.lua remains like that, but "/usr/bin/luatools" is a symbolic link to "luatools.lua".
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