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From: Nicola <nvitacolonna@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: ConTeXt Minimals and TEXMFCACHE
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:23:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nvitacolonna-13EB8C.08233428082010@news.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C782D26.6040905@wxs.nl>

In article <4C782D26.6040905@wxs.nl>, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 27-8-2010 8:17, Nicola wrote:
> > In article
> > <AANLkTimbrXN-YhfA9bqYREjmCfuyEhqXr-+iX6Ne5DFu@mail.gmail.com>,
> >   Mojca Miklavec<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> TEXMFCACHE is not used by MKII (neither in pdfTeX nor in XeTeX).
> >
> > Right. I have tried
> >
> > unset TEXMFCACHE
> > texexec hello.tex
> >
> > in the command line and it just runs texexec (as expected).

Sorry, my mistake. If I unset TEXMFCACHE, then mtxrun is run also from 
the command line and the behaviour is consistent with what happens from 
TeXShop - which, in turn, is consistent with what Hans explains below.

> we used to have texmfstart as script runner (all scripts are located and 
> started by a runner which is faster than using some kpse locator esp 
> when having nested runs as with metafun in mkii)
> 
> so, texexec used to be
> 
>    texmfstart texexec
> 
> however, nowadays mtxrun is the runner and it replaces texmfstart for 
> mkii as well and in order to do this, it needs the file database and 
> that one ends up in the cache so even for mkii there is a cache needed 
> (when I'm in the mood I'll check the lua texutil variant in which case 
> we can also kick out ruby which is currently only needed for mkii)
> 
> Hans

Everything is clear now. Thank you!

Nicola

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-28  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-26 19:03 Nicola
2010-08-26 21:27 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-27  8:38   ` Nicola
2010-08-27  8:04 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-08-27  8:54   ` Nicola
2010-08-27  9:24     ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-08-27 18:17       ` Nicola
2010-08-27 21:24         ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-28  6:23           ` Nicola [this message]
2010-08-27 12:25     ` Peter Schorsch

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