Re: ConTeXt beta installation issue

[Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>]

On Monday, Mar 17, 2003, at 00:45 Europe/Amsterdam, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

> I've been using Simon's installer script successfully of late to 
> install betas, but just ran into the following error (see below).  Any 
> ideas or suggestions?
>
> The command I used was:
>
> sudo perl install_context.pl --textree /Users/darcusb/Library/texmf 
> /Applications/Installers/ConTeXt/cont-tmf.zip
>
> I do note that the pdfetex.pool it says it can't open is in this 
> directory:
>
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/

It is pdfetex that fails  because it cannot find the pool file.

Whatever install_context.pl does, it seems to override PATH (another 
pdfetex on your system is found, not likely) or KPSE settings from 
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf in such a way that TeX stops working.

Probably it tries to do some guessing itself instead of relying on 
existing settings. What might influence this is that my setup separates 
the texmf part that is related to binaries (like pool files that change 
when binary versions change) and the stuff that is the fondation (like 
ConTeXt, LATeX, etc). /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf starts with:

> % Our directory setup as explained in 
> $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/README.gwtex
> % TEXMFMAIN contains the TEXMF tree installed by make install of the 
> programs
> TEXMFMAIN = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf
> % TEXMFTE contains the main TEXMF tree from teTeX
> TEXMFTE = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf.tetex
> % TEXMFGW contains GW specific defaults and additions
> TEXMFGW = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf.gwtex
> % TEXMFLOCAL contains any local system TeXadmin overrides
> TEXMFLOCAL = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf.local
> % $VARTEXMF is where texconfig writes its local settings
> VARTEXMF = $TEXMFLOCAL
> % User texmf trees can be catered for like this...
> HOMETEXMF = $HOME/Library/texmf
>
> % Our complete search path, the last three are searched through
> % ls-R exclusively, which means that you have to run texhash
> % after you have added, moved or deleted files in the tree
> TEXMF={$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFGW,!!$TEXMFTE,!!$TEXMFMAIN}

In this case, there is a valid TeX setup, though uncommon because the 
separation of texmf into texmf and texmf.tetex. I need this separation 
to be able to update programs and foundation separately. A new 
foundation (texmf.tetex + texmf.gwtex) does not touch anything related 
to the binaries (like pool files) in texmf.

If you send me the script I can have a quick look at it.

G

Here is what which and kpsewhich should tell you in a standard setup

% which pdfetex
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/pdfetex
% kpsewhich pdfetex.pool
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.pool
% kpsewhich cont-en.tex
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex