Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
From: Hans Hagen
i remember from long ago that there's also some path trickery involved (btw, i'm not sure where the binaries live)
Hmm, tell me more about that if you remember.
well, tetex adding tex related bin paths to the (user) profile files which then could clash with other tex installations
That is hopefully a thing of the past. I just checked all the texmf.cnf files it sees, and it's only the system default even though I have ~/.texmf-{config,var} directories made by tetex.
$ kpsewhere texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
tmftools texmf.cnf shows what file is used, textools --find texmf.cnf does a more extensive search
This global texmf.cnf includes those two directories by default (at least with tetex-3.0). A snip from there:
TEXMFHOME = $HOME/texmf TEXMFVAR = $HOME/.texmf-var TEXMFCONFIG = $HOME/.texmf-config TEXMF = {$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFDIST}
indeed, quite some paths (i hope that $TEXMFPROJECT will make it into there, although when i proposed that some reactions were that we already have too many paths; interesting since most of the funny config/var/sys ones mentioned in your example are probably empty anyway) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------