From: Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: "Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: problem with MkIV/TeXlive/TEXMFCACHE
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:18:48 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.78.908.2108300915330.398836@nqv-guvaxcnq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24876.46949.437562.102339@mail.bb-c.de>
On Mon, 30 Aug 2021, Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context wrote:
> But, as I said, my texmf.cnf sets TEXMFCACHE to $TEXMFSYSVAR;$TEXMFVAR,
> and TEXMFSYSVAR is /var/opt/texlive. Why is that ignored?
mtxrun (and context MKIV and LMTX) do not read texmf.cnf rather read values from contextcnf.lua (it used to be texmfcnf.lua, not sure how TL handles this).
You can also try setting it explicitly in the shell:
$ TEXMFCACHE=/var/opt/texlive/texmf-cache mtxrun --generate
Aditya
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-27 8:25 Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context
2021-08-27 15:57 ` luigi scarso via ntg-context
2021-08-30 9:49 ` Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context
2021-08-30 10:22 ` luigi scarso via ntg-context
2021-08-30 10:48 ` Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context
2021-08-30 12:32 ` Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
2021-08-30 14:41 ` Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context
2021-08-30 13:18 ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context [this message]
2021-08-30 14:55 ` Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context
2021-08-30 14:33 ` luigi scarso via ntg-context
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