On May 10, 2006, at 19:13, Hans Hagen wrote:
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Hans,
do I need to re-report that format generation with texmfstart newtexexec --make is still broken on OS X (I'll check on my linux box later)? I still get these monstrous paths like
TeXExec | tex engine path: .:/Users/tas/texmf/web2c//:!!/usr/local/ teTeX/share//share/texmf-local/web2c//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share// share/texmf/web2c//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share//share/texmf-dist/web2c// pdfetex
btw, i cannot test the mac here since the machine is broken (does not start up and i already wasted half a day on it)
It seems like not the real paths are taken but only the main path and texmf-local, texmf-dist and such are hard coded subdirectories. This is one reason why I do not use the standard directories (like texmf-local and texmf-dist, but texmf.local, texmf.gwtex, texmf.tetex), to catch path `hard coding' errors as soon as possible. Another possibility (also a type of hard coding error) is parsing the wrong texmf.cnf file yourself instead of asking for the right paths by using kpsewhich. G