Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:14:19 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Installation hangs because asks for input from terminal (Attn: tetex maintainer, setup maintainer) Message-ID: <20040914091419.GA1066@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <41416E12 DOT 30103 AT math DOT md> <87llfenmgx DOT fsf AT peder DOT flower> <874qm2nigl DOT fsf AT peder DOT flower> <87d60qm23w DOT fsf AT peder DOT flower> <87isaikm6u DOT fsf AT peder DOT flower> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87isaikm6u.fsf@peder.flower> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Jan, On Sep 13 21:23, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Because I do not like to make the wrong fix. In this case, it will > probably hurt very few people, so it would make sense to think a bit > and do it correctly, if possible. > > See, I can easily add unsetting bunch of variables to post-texmf.mf, eg > > unset MFINPUTS TEXINPUTS TEXMF TEXMFCNF TFMFONTS VARTEXFONTS > > but it makes little sense unless I also do that in a profile.d script > (ugh). > > Then, just pick a variable from texmf.cnf and set it to a silly value > in Windows, eg > > pool_size=2 > > and your tetex setup will be broken again. since the tetex settings are so dependent of environment variables and since the environment variables are shared with different tetex implementations, wouldn't it be better to split the tetex installation into two files? First, the postinstall script, which doesn't depend on these variables, and second, a still-to-be-created tetex-config script, similar to curl-config, exim-config, etc, and which has to be started by the user manually? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/