texmfcnf.lua is broken for ConTeXt.

amano.kenji amano.kenji at proton.me
Sat Aug 20 13:50:17 CEST 2022


I suspect either mtxrun or texmfcnf.lua refuses to accept "/" as selfautoparent.

Since mtxrun of TexLive OS package is in /usr/bin, selfautodir should be /usr, and selfautoparent should be /.

selfautoparent is the parent directory of selfautodir.

------- Original Message -------
On Saturday, August 20th, 2022 at 12:22 AM, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info> wrote:


> On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, amano.kenji wrote:
> 
> > TEXMFSYSVAR = "selfautoparent:/var/lib/texmf",
> 
> 
> That doesn't make sense ... you want
> TEXMFSYSVAR = "/var/lib/texmf"
> as I have shown you in the Debian patch.
> 
> When you use selfautoparent then it will be relative paths which leads
> to:\
> 
> > res: ./var/lib/texmf
> > 
> > What is "."? Does it mean the current working directory? Or, does it actually mean "/"?
> 
> 
> . is standard notation on all filesystems I know and indicates the
> current working directory.
> 
> Best
> 
> Norbert
> 
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