kpsewhich issues

kpsewhich issues

[Adam Lindsay]

Okay, I'll not be afraid in parading my ignorance in front of  
everybody. I see web2c configuration as a form of voodoo. Sometimes it  
works for me, but clearly my mental model is insufficient, because it  
really can surprise me, as well.
I'm having some kpathsea issues on a new reinstall of gwTeX.

in my texmf.cnf:
TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}//

I'm trying to get xetex to find  
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/xetex/cont-en.fmt, which  
exists.


at the command line:
atl% kpsewhich -show-path=fmt
.:/Users/atl/Library/texmf/web2c///:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/ 
texmf.local/web2c///:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/web2c///:!!/ 
usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c///:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/ 
texmf/web2c///:/Users/atl/Library/texmf/web2c///:!!/usr/local/teTeX/ 
share/texmf.local/web2c///:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/web2c// 
/:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c///:!!/usr/local/teTeX/ 
share/texmf/web2c///

atl% kpsewhich cont-en.fmt
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/cont-en.fmt

...as expected. But with a different engine:

atl% kpsewhich -show-path=fmt -engine=xetex
.:/Users/atl/Library/texmf/web2c/xetex//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/ 
texmf.local/web2c/xetex//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/web2c/ 
xetex//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c/xetex//:!!/usr/ 
local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/xetex//:/Users/atl/Library/texmf/web2c// 
/:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c///:!!/usr/local/teTeX/ 
share/texmf.gwtex/web2c///:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c// 
/:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c///

atl% kpsewhich -engine=xetex cont-en.fmt
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/cont-en.fmt


That is, -show-path gets it right, but kpsewhich on a normal search  
gets it wrong. I'm stymied.

many thanks for whatever help you can point me to,
adam

Re: kpsewhich issues

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hi Adam,

I'd bet that you have done it: you did run texhash after putting the
format into web2c/xetex?

Patrick

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Re: Re: kpsewhich issues

[Adam Lindsay]

On 15 Mar 2005, at 14:21, Patrick Gundlach wrote:

> I'd bet that you have done it: you did run texhash after putting the
> format into web2c/xetex?
>
I would have bet that I did it, too, after years of giving the same 
advice.
But I didn't.
Ugh.

Thanks,
adam

Re: kpsewhich issues

[Hans Hagen]

Adam Lindsay wrote:

> atl% kpsewhich -show-path=fmt -engine=xetex
> .:/Users/atl/Library/texmf/web2c/xetex//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/ 
> texmf.local/web2c/xetex//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/web2c/ 
> xetex//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c/xetex//:!!/usr/ 
> local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/xetex//:/Users/atl/Library/texmf/web2c// 
> /:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c///:!!/usr/local/teTeX/ 
> share/texmf.gwtex/web2c///:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c// 
> /:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c///
> 
> atl% kpsewhich -engine=xetex cont-en.fmt
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/cont-en.fmt

how about progname instead of engine

Hans

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