[tex-live] initexmf

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:59:57PM -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at cybercomm.nl> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> I installed TL 2008 without problems on WinXP with MiKTeX 2.7, but I
> cleaned the environment before starting the installer.   Some users
> 
> ...
>
> Life is too short to work out all the foibles of WIn32, but I've installed
> TL2008 on systems with existing TL2007 and MiKTeX 2.7 after removing
> all traces of the existing packages from the environment.   In addition to
> the PATH, check for things like PERL library paths and TEXINPUTS.

In further tests, more paranoid setting of the searchpath from
within the installer didn't help, but fixing the environment
beforehand did; which matches your experiences.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg