On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Vasile Gaburici
My solution was to drop the pdftex binary I've compiled in /usr/local/bin. Unfortunately from there it thought that it "belonged" to Fedora's RPM-installed TeXLive 2007 instead of my separate 2008 installation. This is due the kpathsea's compile-time defaults for CNF locations (paths.h), which eventually finds TL 2007's texmf.cnf in /usr/share/texmf/web2c. But at least I know that my patched pdftex works with TL2007.
A simple approach for testing is to create parallel
".../texlive/YYYY/bin/<arch>-t" directories and put one before the
".../texlive/YYYY/bin/<arch>"directory in the path on the test
system(s). Thay way SELFAUTOPARENT is the same as for the
standard binaries.
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George N. White III