[NTG-context] Stuck in texmfstart

[Hans Hagen]

Neal Lester wrote:
> This morning, when I try to run texexec, texmfstart gets stuck in the 
> loop at line 262.
>   
you mean:

        loop do
            busy = false
            filenames.collect! do |f|
                f.gsub(/\$([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]*)/o) do
                    busy = true
                    ENV[$1] || ("$#{$1}")
                end
            end
            break unless busy
        end

can you try: 

        loop do
            busy = false
            filenames.collect! do |f|
                f.gsub(/\$([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]*)/o) do
                    busy = true
puts "#{f} => #{ENV[$1]}" 
                    ENV[$1] || ("$#{$1}")
                end
            end
            break unless busy
        end

and see what is reported


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