[tex-live] Windows (MSYS2) : kpathsea does not find texmf.cnf

[Akira Kakuto]

>> TEXMFCNF=E:/Documents/programmes_x86/texlive/2016;
>>
>> The trailing semicolon is important. If the semicolon does not exist,
>> texmf.cnf is searched only in E:/Documents/programmes_x86/texlive/2016.
>
> 1) I've just tried this. My program seems to hang.
>
> 2) I tried E:/Documents/programmes_x86/texlive/2016: (with : at the
> end) and I get

Probably you are using a non-standard shell in which
the semicolon is a special character.
But the kpathsea for w32 requires DOS path separator, semicolon.
So maybe the following works:
export TEXMFCNF='E:/Documents/programmes_x86/texlive/2016;'

Best,
Akira