[tex-live] relocatable texlive?
Khaled Hosny
khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sun Aug 1 13:56:09 CEST 2010
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 01:40:30PM +0200, Michel Goossens wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to generate a texlive tree on a portable USB-connectable hard disk on a Linux system. At first sight everything seems to be relocatable, but when I mounted my portable disk on Windows under cygwin xetex did not find any truetype or opentype directories. I "grepped" all files in the texmf trees, and found one file, texmf-var/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf,
> which has explicit absolute filenames to list the font directories. Its contents is shown below.
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> <fontconfig>
> <dir>/media/usbdisk/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype</dir>
> <dir>/media/usbdisk/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype</dir>
> <dir>/media/usbdisk/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/fonts/type1</dir>
> </fontconfig>rectories
>
> This prefix /media/usbdisk is the one the system assigns on my Linux fedora-based OS. On windows, the disk is mounted on the E: disk (or /cygdrive/e/). I wonder, why in the texlive-fontconfig.conf file the directory names are not relative to the root of the texlive setup (texlive/2010 in this case?) as are all the other files that contain file lists (e.g., ls-R).
May be ecause fontconfig does not handle relative paths (it is system\
library not bound to TeX).
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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