From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org>
Subject: Re: Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:28:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc1dedc2-b01b-255e-3334-d0d3ee9108df@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200918124934.s7vxte5xkjf4xwcb@phare.normalesup.org>
On 9/18/2020 2:49 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 01:48:16PM +0200, Felix Krause wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> That was rhetorical :-) /var and /tmp (as well as /etc) have been
> symbolic links for at least ten years, probably earlier.
>
>>> 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)!
>
> Glad to hear that, and you’re welcome, but this should also be fixed
> in ConTeXt -- Hans, can you do something about that? It should be
> enough to resolve symbolic links on either sides of the test
> dir.current() ~= validformatpath
I need to find a problematic mac ... I remember that Taco did some tests
recently so I'll ask him.
Hans
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-18 18:28 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
2020-09-18 12:49 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2020-09-18 18:28 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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