Re: fmtutil can't find pdfetex.pool

[Axel Zindler <a.zindler@gmx.de>]

Am Freitag, 23. November 2001 22:39 schrieben Sie:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Axel Zindler wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 23. November 2001 19:06 schrieb Christopher Creutzig:
> > > Axel Zindler <a.zindler@gmx.de> writes:
> > > > The problem comes with the binary version of pdftex. These files
have
> > > > incompiled possible search paths for the file texmf.cnf. In SuSE 7.3
> > > > it
> > >
> > >  If you don't like those, you can always set $TEXMFCNF to a directory
> > > containing your local texmf.cnf.
> >
> > Doesn't work on my machine
> >
> > The file resides in /var/lib/texmf/web2c - so I must give:
> > TEXMFCNF=/var/lib/texmf/web2c - correct?
>
> You need to 'export' the variable to make it available to the
> "children" of the current process.  What do you get from:
>
>   echo $TEXMFCNF/texmf.cnf
>   sh -c 'echo $TEXMFCNF/texmf.cnf'
>

Of course - once I read that somewhere, but forgot again :-(
Thanks very much!

So I've done now
TEXMFCNF=/var/lib/texmf/web2c
export TEXMFCNF

and it worked.

Thanks for the tip how to check, whether a variable is exported or not.

Greetings

Axel Zindler

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