problem with setuptex

problem with setuptex

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Hi all, especially Mojca, I guess,

I have a somewhat bizarre problem with the setuptex script under the 
latest Fedora and zsh (version 5.02). Here's what happens:

source ~/context/tex/setuptex
"/mnt/shared/context/tex" is not a valid TEXROOT path.
(There is no file "/mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex")
provide a proper tex root (like '. setuptex /something/tex')

The script works under bash; the error under Fedora is the same on two 
different computers, but I don't know if any other linux distribution 
has the same version of zsh. Can anyone else test and see if they have 
similar problems with zsh?

All best

Thomas
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Re: problem with setuptex

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all, especially Mojca, I guess,
>
> I have a somewhat bizarre problem with the setuptex script under the latest
> Fedora and zsh (version 5.02). Here's what happens:
>
> source ~/context/tex/setuptex
> "/mnt/shared/context/tex" is not a valid TEXROOT path.
> (There is no file "/mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex")
> provide a proper tex root (like '. setuptex /something/tex')
>
> The script works under bash; the error under Fedora is the same on two
> different computers, but I don't know if any other linux distribution has
> the same version of zsh. Can anyone else test and see if they have similar
> problems with zsh?

I would gladly help, but I don't know how zhs works and I didn't find
any hints during a quick search.

My suggestion would be to put
   export PATH=$HOME/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin:$PATH
or something similar into the file that you are sourcing.

Mojca
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Re: problem with setuptex

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On 07/10/2013 11:24 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> I would gladly help, but I don't know how zhs works and I didn't find
> any hints during a quick search.
>
> My suggestion would be to put
>     export PATH=$HOME/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin:$PATH
> or something similar into the file that you are sourcing.
>
> Mojca

Hi Mojca,

I'm happy to say that a recent update in Fedora solved the problem; 
setuptex now works again. Bizarre, I still have no idea where the 
problem came from...

All best

Thomas

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Re: problem with setuptex

[David Rogers]

"Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> writes:

> On 07/10/2013 11:24 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> I would gladly help, but I don't know how zhs works and I didn't find
>> any hints during a quick search.
>>
>> My suggestion would be to put
>>     export PATH=$HOME/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin:$PATH
>> or something similar into the file that you are sourcing.
>>
>> Mojca
>
> Hi Mojca,
>
> I'm happy to say that a recent update in Fedora solved the problem;
> setuptex now works again. Bizarre, I still have no idea where the
> problem came from...

A tiny, random hunch: zsh treats its built-in "source" command
differently from its "." command, and therefore sometimes one or the
other works better. It's worth trying ". ~/context/tex/setuptex" when
using zsh. However, I don't see really how it would have helped in this
situation, and on my machine either one works fine.

-- 
David R
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