[tex-live] $TEXMFHOME not working right

[Robin Fairbairns]

Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/14/2010 12:13 AM, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > On Do, 13 Mai 2010, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> >> I looked for an option in tlmgr for $TEXMFHOME (I vaguely recall such an
> >> option in the installer?) but could not find it.
> >>
> >> Is there a configuration file to edit to fix this?
> > 
> > TEXMFHOME is searched for without ls-R files present.
> <snip>
> > It shoujld work.
> > 
[...]
> I’m trying to play with the development versions of fontspec &c., so I
> installed fontspec.sty [2010/05/14 v2.0 …] (and the .cfg & .lua) in
> /home/chesky/texmf/tex/latex/fontspec.  I even get this result:
> 
> chesky at derrial:~$ kpsewhich -all fontspec.sty
> /home/chesky/texmf/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
> /opt/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
> chesky at derrial:~$ kpsewhich fontspec.sty
> /home/chesky/texmf/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
> 
> But when I try to typeset the documentation for the development version
> of xltxtra, I get:
> 
> chesky at derrial:~/Downloads/wspr/xltxtra$ xelatex xltxtra.dtx
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009)
> …
> LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 28, version
>                `2010/05/14 v2.0' of package fontspec,
>                but only version
>                `2008/08/09 v1.18 Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX'
>                is available.
> …
> 
> Why is the system not preferring my locally-installed version?

because it's looking at the tex/xelatex tree, and you've put it on
tex/latex