From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/16877 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: Getting linuxtex.zip working Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 15:39:14 +0100 Message-ID: <41864A92.9040106@wxs.nl> References: <20041031223402.GB9821@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> <418603B3.9010801@wxs.nl> <20041101142211.GC9161@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099319968 17020 80.91.229.6 (1 Nov 2004 14:39:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:39:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 01 15:39:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1COdKx-0002uN-00 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2004 15:39:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313F512799; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:39:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11667-04-5; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:39:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE75C1277B; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:39:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276131277B for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:39:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11667-04-4 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:39:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (unknown [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B5912777 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:39:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iA1Ed4Np015366 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:39:04 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 6646618A36; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:39:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.191] (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 095C01006 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:39:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20041101142211.GC9161@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/540/Tue Oct 19 14:59:23 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:16877 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:16877 Nikolai Weibull wrote: > * Hans Hagen [Nov 01, 2004 13:55]: > >>>Exactly what do I need to do after running setuptex, mktexlsr, and >>>texexec --make --alone? PATH needs permanent updating for sure, but >>>what else? texexec won't work (kpsewhich won't work) unless >>>setuptex is sourced before I try running it in a fresh shell. What >>>am I missing in my setup? > > >>you can add the call to setuptex to your local profile > > >>. /path-to/setuptex /path-to > > > Sure, but what variables are actually necessary to export and, more > interestingly, why are they needed in the environment at all? When > running from tetex everything works fine. I'm guessing this is mostly > due to differences between stuff in tetex 2.0.2 and more recent releases > of software, but I still can't see why it would be necessary to fill the > environment with some 10-20 variables. > nikolai (the environmentalist) setuptex exports the variables for you; if you look in that file, you can see that i define all critical variables the problem with tetex (last time i installed it) is that it sets paths and other things in ways that make parallel distributions painful; also, i dislike sorting out all kind of unexpected side effects due to settings of texinput paths, home directory stuff, texmf.cnf files not being in theirnatural place (it seems that some unix distributions prefer the etc path) so, the idea of setuptex is that you can have tetex and anytex on your system and still use a minimal context which, when setuptex is ran, is completely isolated (al also add some more trees, like texmf-project, texmf-fonts which are not set by other tes distributions) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------