On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:35 AM Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
Dear experts,
I want to use ConTeXt MkIV as supplied by TeXlive 2021. After installation, I ran "mtxrun --generate". I also tried "context --generate". Both create output in the wrong place.
The TeXlive documentation says that ConTeXt uses TEXMFCACHE, which uses the default $TEXMFSYSVAR;$TEXMFVAR in my texmf.cnf. My TEXMFSYSVAR is /var/opt/texlive, but ConTeXt doesn't use it. Instead, it creates /opt/texmf-var and creates its output there. I don't understand why it used that path; I've never used or configured it.
How can I convice ConTeXt to use TEXMFSYSVAR?
Or is this a question for the TeXlive folks?
Thanks for looking at this.
What does $> tlmgr conf say ? -- luigi