filepath on format generation
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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...
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Hans van der Meer wrote:
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?
fmtutil uses TEXMFVAR, but I have no idea what its value should be. Perhaps someone else can give you that information. Best wishes, Taco
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Hans van der Meer
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Taco Hoekwater