Re: Error in installing new beta

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 13-6-2010 7:32, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
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> On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
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>> Same error here on OS X. And another question: I couldn't get my TEXMFHOME recognized under linux-32. One problem was that it is set to ~/texmf-home. I would suggest setting this value back to the canonical ~/texmf. (I had more problems, but I'll have to reboot into linux in order to verify).
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> OK, this problem is gone with the latest beta. The problem with the wrong value of TEXMFHOME persists. In a pristine texmfcnf.lua, this is set (l. 25)
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> TEXMFHOME       = "~/texmf-home", -- "tree:///~/texmf
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> for mkii, however, it is set in texmf.cnf (l. 31)
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> TEXMFHOME     = $HOME/texmf
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> why these two different values? I consider texmf-home as wrong.

because i dislike having a 'texmf' other than the main one anywhere (if 
only because it makes tracing a pain) .. i'll set it to texmf but will 
probably add some warnings in a future version

> Moreover, when I set this to a sane value
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> TEXMFHOME       = "/Users/tas/texmf", -- "tree:///~/texmf
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> and then re-run mtxrun --generate, I get this error:
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> MTXrun |
> MTXrun | fileio: scanning path 'tree:////Users/tas/texmf'
> /Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun:9094: cannot open tree:////Users/tas/texmf/: No such file or directory

strange as that should be intercepted. I'll see what my mac does with it 
when i hav eit up and running.

> I have no idea what the notation 'tree:////' is supposed to do. /Users/tas/texmf does indeed exist and works with the beta before the scripts were changed. So I'm somewhat stymied.

tree:// is just one of the uri's supported (and permits loading files 
from some tree) and this scheme is autoinserted when no !! is used; the 
!! will become cache:// .. much of that is still experimental

Hans


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