From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27876 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gerben Wierda Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: new release (Modified by Gerben Wierda) Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 22:22:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <339d5c4b87be1aa8c489dc2182411461@rna.nl> <4462F326.7030205@wxs.nl> <24343.159.46.248.233.1147350092.squirrel@mail.rna.nl> <44635543.4080704@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147378951 23065 80.91.229.2 (11 May 2006 20:22:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 20:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu May 11 22:22:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1FeHfm-0003JA-UE for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 22:22:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3736E127D2; Thu, 11 May 2006 22:22:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12147-06; Thu, 11 May 2006 22:22:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29F7127BC; Thu, 11 May 2006 22:22:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACDE127BC for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 22:22:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12123-03 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 22:22:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 32F60127B9 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 22:22:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ii2.demon.nl ([82.161.98.36]:15953 helo=mail.rna.nl) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1FeHfe-0002cu-O4 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 11 May 2006 20:22:02 +0000 Original-Received: from [192.168.2.99] (hedwig.rna.nl [192.168.2.99]) by mail.rna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 334CE4AE3C5 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 22:22:02 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <44635543.4080704@wxs.nl> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27876 Archived-At: On May 11, 2006, at 17:16, Hans Hagen wrote: > Gerben Wierda wrote: >>> btw, doesn't gwtex set the TEXMFCNF env variable? >>> >> >> It does not get a useful value. >> >> TEXMFCNF is defined at compile-time and its setting in a texmf.cnf >> file is >> ignored for obvious reasons. The compiled-in version shows my compile >> environment which differs from the install environment on people's >> system. >> >> Try >> kpsewhich -expand-var=\$TEXMFCNF >> in a Terminal window. >> >> I had to do this if I wanted to make my TeX install relocatable and I >> had >> to make it relocatable to enable the option that people who do not >> have >> sysadmin privileges can install the TeX i-Package in their home >> directory >> and still work with it. >> >> In short: everything in TeX is relocatable at run time except the >> location >> of texmf.cnf. >> > but how then does it locate texmf.cnf, relative to the bin path of > kpsewhich? The first texmnf.cnf it tries is indeed located that way: ../../texmf.cnf This is the only reason my precompiled TeX distro is relocatable. G