[tex-live] mptopdf problem: texmf.cnf not found.

[Byung-Jae Kwak]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:55 AM, George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Reinhard Kotucha
> <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
>> On 30 August 2010 George N. White III wrote:
>>
>>  > > It appears that somehow, MSYS interferes with my TeX Live install, and
>>  > > the search
>>  > > path is prefixed with "/msys/1.0".
>>  > > Please help!
>>  >
>>  > When you move from an Msys process to a windows process, Msys tries
>>  > to adjust environment vars that look like paths from "Msys" to
>>  > "Windows" locations.  This certainly seems to be what you are
>>  > seeing.
>>
>> I didn't encounter something like this on the MSYS version I installed
>> two or three years ago.  I ran TeX and Perl in an MSYS environment.
>> TeX Live doesn't set environment variables, so nothing unexpected
>> should happen.  But ActivePerl sets PERL5LIB and it worked without any
>> problems too.  Seems that you have a newer version of MSYS.  I don't
>> have access to the Windows machine anymore.  If newer versions of MSYS
>> really behave as you describe, I suspect they are buggy.
>
> See the entry "A tail about the Windows Unix shells and MSYS path mangling"
> <http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/enablers-and-obstructors>
> for some examples.

I am not versed in UNIX enough to understand the blog entry.

But, even assuming MSYS has a problem, I still don't understand why
this is hapenning. mptopdf is not an MSYS application. If I did not have
MSYS installed, I would not be having this problem. Am I wrong?

Best Regards,
BJ