From: "Felix Krause" <contact@flyx.org>
To: "Mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:48:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C4B68239-AC84-49D5-9795-F1D0DF89FA14@flyx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200918105047.d3qbbegnrt2xkrpw@phare.normalesup.org>
On 18 Sep 2020, at 12:50, Arthur Rosendahl wrote:
> I think I may have found the origin of the error:
>
> In your case validformatpath is a subdirectory of $TMPDIR, under
> /var/folders/. However, if your Mac is anything like mine, /var is
> actually a symbolic link to /private/var, so that dir.current() reports
> a path starting with /private and the test fails.
Yes, this is the setup here as well.
> You can work around that by setting TMPDIR to some other value, that
> doesn’t start with /var -- and not /tmp either because that’s also a
> symbolic link :-) It should work with a temporary directory in your
> home folder. Can you try that?
This works. Thanks a lot (also to everyone else involved)!
Regards,
Felix
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-18 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-18 7:41 Felix Krause
2020-09-18 9:20 ` Otared Kavian
2020-09-18 9:35 ` Felix Krause
2020-09-18 9:43 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2020-09-18 10:00 ` Felix Krause
2020-09-18 10:36 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2020-09-18 11:40 ` Felix Krause
2020-09-18 9:45 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-09-18 10:02 ` Felix Krause
2020-09-18 10:50 ` Arthur Rosendahl
2020-09-18 11:48 ` Felix Krause [this message]
2020-09-18 12:49 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2020-09-18 18:28 ` Hans Hagen
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