[tex-live] serious problem with mktextfm or mktexdir and `~'

[Werner LEMBERG]

> If you get the new i386-linux kpsewhich binary from the repo, does
> that help?

No.

$ /usr/local/TeXLive/Master/texmf/web2c/mktexnam larm1000
~/.texlive2008/texmf-var/fonts/pk/ljfour/lh/lh-t2a/larm1000.600pk:\
~/.texlive2008/texmf-var/fonts/tfm/lh/lh-t2a/larm1000.tfm:\
~/.texlive2008/texmf-var/fonts/source/lh/lh-t2a/larm1000.mf


     Werner