Bug 436949
| Summary: | Wrong search path for texmf.cnf | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Ottavio G. Rizzo <ogrizzo> | ||||
| Component: | texlive | Assignee: | Jindrich Novy <jnovy> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 8 | CC: | pertusus, pknirsch | ||||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-03-12 17:17:24 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Actually, the first definition:
{$SELFAUTOLOC,$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,}/web2c}
*should* not be there, since it implies that /usr/share/texmf/web2c is searched
before /etc/texmf/web2c, making it impossible to override default values.
It's debatable which should be the places for local modifications (I don't
understand Fedora directory structure well enough to comment), but
DEFAULT_TEXMFCNF should be set to sensible values like
"/etc/texmf/web2c:/var/lib/texmf/web2c:.:/etc/texmf/web2c"
(should also /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c be there?)
(is . a security risk? it'd be useful for experiments)
(should we look also in the user home directory?)
I agree with /etc/texmf/web2c (and I am certainly the culprit). For SELFAUTO stuff it is more problematic. If I recall well this is used because it is used in kpathsea because of a post-build run of some utilities, and for this post build run, the SELFAUTO stuff has to be present. I'll have a look at it once more, since Karl Berry said that it was not used, maybe we could avoid using it during the build. It is normal to have /usr/share/texmf/web2c appearing twice since it is $TEXMF/web2c;@web2c@ from upstream. Created attachment 297691 [details]
put web2c after sysconfdir and don't use share/texmf in SELFAUTO
I didn't find anything better than only using texmf-local
instead of texmf (and texmf-local). The texmf.cnf has to
be installed in the texmf-local directory during the build for
the texlinks call, it is also done in the patch.
Applied, thanks! |
Description of problem: The paths where texmf.cnf is searched are defined at compile time in /kpathsea/paths.h as #define DEFAULT_TEXMFCNF "{$SELFAUTOLOC,$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,}/web2c}:/etc/texmf:/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c" /etc/texmf is wrong, it should be /etc/texmf/web2c. Moreover, /usr/share/texmf/web2c appears twice (actually thrice, since it's implied by SELFAUTOPARENT) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): texlive-2007-24.fc8 Expected results: A local modification of texmf.cnf should go in /etc/texmf/web2c, not in /etc/texmf