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From:	hin-tak DOT leung AT idl-bt DOT com
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, hin-tak DOT leung AT idl-bt DOT com
Subject:	RE: New on sourceware: texmf-20000804-2
Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:52:10 -0000
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My Texmf tree came from the stock teTeX 1.0.2 (before the cygwin
texmf-tiny/texmf-base was announced)./usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
came from cygwin tetex-2001218-1 (as it should be). As for
whether it is sane - I should think so if tetex-20001218-1 is sane. 
Without setting TEXMFMAIN, it looks like latex is trying to look for
the texmf tree under //share rather than /usr/share .

At the top of /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf it said 
"TEXMFMAIN = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf" and my guess is that
$SELFAUTOPARENT is not set correctly, but this is the only file
where SELFAUTOPARENT is mentioned as far as I notice. The teTeX binaries on
linux or other unix platforms are built to remember to
find the texmf tree under some directory set at compilation-time
(usually /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, /usr/share, /usr/local/share)
unless over-ridden by setting TEXMF/TEXMFMAIN/TEXMFLOCAL
and I can see why the cygwin binaries shouldn't be able to do it
correctly...

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen [mailto:janneke AT gnu DOT org]
Sent: 29 January 2002 10:29
To: hin-tak DOT leung AT idl-bt DOT com
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: New on sourceware: texmf-20000804-2


hin-tak DOT leung AT idl-bt DOT com writes:

> I have been using 20001218-1 for quite a while now ...  but I have
> always had problems with having to set some environment variables.

Did you install any of the texmf-tiny or texmf-base packages?

> It is currently fully functional including typesetting CJK
> documents, but it bugs me that I have to set TEXMFMAIN because I did
> not need to do that when I was in my good old linux years... Any
> ideas?

Return to Linux, and enjoy many more of those good years?
[Hmm, wrong list ;-)]
Do you have a (sane) config file:

    /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

If not, please reinstall texmf-tiny or texmf-base.

> -----Original Message-----
[SNIP 100 useless lines]

Greetings,
Jan.

-- 
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org

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