[tex-live] initexmf

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:55:59 +0100 schrieb Siep Kroonenberg:

> Trying to test some stuff, I ran into the following:
> 
> My w2k test virtual machine still had MikTeX 2.7 installed. I didn't
> bother to uninstall it first.
> 
> I installed TL08 from dvd image. In the dosbox, there were messages
> 
> running post install action for texlive.infra
> running mktexlsr C:/Program Files/texlive/2008/texmf-dist C:/Program Files/texli
> ve/2008/texmf
> initexmf: This utility does not accept non-option arguments.
> 
> How the hell did MikTeX's mktexlsr get invoked instead of the one
> from TeX Live, or how did MikTeX's initexmf.exe get invoked by TeX
> Live's mktexlsr?

> Is this another permission weirdness? Like w32 thinks TL08 is busy
> so it picks instead something from MikTeX, which is still on the
> searchpath? Does w32 somehow remember that mktexlsr is initexmf?  (I
> am clutching at straws here)

w32 doesn't have to remember that mktexlsr is initexmf: there is a
mktexlsr.exe in the miktex bin folder and it is a alias of initexmf. 


-- 
Ulrike Fischer