X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 18:06:21 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010 Message-ID: <20110304170621.GC6393@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4D71181A.6000505@alice.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D71181A.6000505@alice.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mar 4 17:49, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Ken Brown wrote: > >I think fmtutil creates the files in a temporary directory (using TMPDIR, TEMP, or TMP if they exist) and then mv's them. Could this be your problem? What happens if you unset those variables before installing texlive? > > It is some time that my Cygwin installation does not set those > variables any more, and indeed they are all EMPTY.. Perhaps is the > TL installation process that sets them, at least temporary. And if > so, why that does not occur with 1.7.7? Why not with other files > under TL installed tree? Since fmtutil-sys is apparently the core of the problem, and given my total lack of knowledge about the Tex/Latex system, is there any simple call to fmtutil-sys with which I can reproduce the problem without having to install texlive? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple