From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/18971 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Lindsay Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: kpsewhich issues Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:54:41 +0000 Message-ID: <862be7c2ecede3e0267d1f43dd34c3a9@comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110894774 20202 80.91.229.2 (15 Mar 2005 13:52:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Mar 15 14:52:54 2005 Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBCTX-0003Dq-H6 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:52:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E1812897; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:53:58 +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 26826-03; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:53:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F591279B; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:53:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E59031279B for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:53:53 +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 26724-04-3 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:53:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2539A12772 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:53:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [194.80.37.148] (ind030000002.lancs.ac.uk [194.80.37.148]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2FDrqAW006122 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:53:53 GMT Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) 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 X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:18971 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:18971 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