I migrated my texlive2007 tree to a new disk and now I encounter
permission difficulties on context format generation. Calling the
bashrc alias:
alias formats='texmfstart texexec --make en; texmfstart texexec --make
--alone metafun
After the normal (error) messages about ls-R updating I get a
permission error:
TeXExec | using search method 'kpsewhich'
TeXExec | updating file database
mktexlsr: Updating /Users/hans/Tex/texmf-private/ls-R...
mktexlsr: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf: directory not writable.
Skipping...
mktexlsr: Done.
TeXExec | using tex engine pdftex
TeXExec | using tex format path ./pdftex
TeXExec | unable to make format due to lack of permissions
and on calling the following alias:
alias texversion='texmfstart texexec.pl --version; rm mpgraph.mp
texvers-mpgraph.mp'
I get:
fmtutil: format directory `/web2c' does not exist.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt
fmtutil: format directory `/web2c' does not exist.
In my .bashrc I have:
# TeX variables
CONTEXT_RUBY=/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby
TEX_HOME=/usr/local/texlive/2007
TEXMFCACHE=/Users/hans/Temp
OSFONTDIR=/Library/Fonts
TEXMFCNF=/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c
TEXMF="{/Users/hans/Tex/texmf-private,/usr/local/texlive/texmf-
context,/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,/
usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,/usr/
local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc,/usr/
local/texlive/2007/texmf-var}"
TEXFORMATS=/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/web2c
nor did work:
TEXFORMATS=/Users/hans/.texlive2007/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex
The idea is to have the formats locally under .texlive2007 in my home
directory.
Can someone enlighten me where the base of respectively ./pdftex and /
web2c is supposed to be? I thought I did set my environment variables
just as I did previously, when it worked. Why suddenly these
apparently incomplete paths? I MUST have some pathvariable WRONG, but
which one is it?
Hans van der Meer
