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  1. Bug #186164
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 186164

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Hans Georg (h-schaathun) wrote : Re: [Bug 186164] [NEW] latex: multiple texmf.cnf files do not work correctly

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:42:55PM -0000, Norbert Preining wrote:
> I still don't see actually what the undocumented behaviour is. THe one
> is funding texmf.cnf in TEXMFHOME/web2c/texmf.cnf, the other is about
> searching/using ls-R. So what is the problem?

What's undisputably undocumented (or misdocumented) is the fact that
kpsewhich and kpsewhere do not find the same file (as first hit).

Is this a texlive or ubuntu issue?
I see that kpseawhere(1) indicates that it belongs to tetex,
but I thought I had avoided all tetex-specific packages.

> > The previous setup had worked for years with tetex under previous
> > Ubuntu releases, other linux distroes and solaris.
>
> Well, they probably had a different texmf.cnf.

Thanks for that. Now I finally managed to find the second
variable which controls the use of ls-R. That was far from
easy to understand from the comments in texmf.cnf.

Now it works, thanks for your help.
:-- George