When I run TeX on a small file, it takes about 10 seconds to verify that all the fonts exist, followed by about a second to actually compile the file. The previous version did everything in a second or two. Sample: [hughett@chaplin ncf99]$ tex desc This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3) (desc.tex (/home/hughett/tex/newfonts.texkpathsea: Running mktextfm cmr12 mktextfm: /var/lib/texmf/tfm/public/cm/cmr12.tfm already exists. kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmmi12 mktextfm: /var/lib/texmf/tfm/public/cm/cmmi12.tfm already exists. kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmsy10 mktextfm: /var/lib/texmf/tfm/public/cm/cmsy10.tfm already exists. kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmex10 mktextfm: /var/lib/texmf/tfm/public/cm/cmex10.tfm already exists. kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmbx12 mktextfm: /var/lib/texmf/tfm/public/cm/cmbx12.tfm already exists. kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmti12 mktextfm: /var/lib/texmf/tfm/public/cm/cmti12.tfm already exists. kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmtt12 mktextfm: /var/lib/texmf/tfm/public/cm/cmtt12.tfm already exists. ) (/home/hughett/tex/btxmac.tex)kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmss12 mktextfm: /var/lib/texmf/tfm/public/cm/cmss12.tfm already exists. kpathsea: Running mktextfm msbm10 mktextfm: /var/lib/texmf/tfm/ams/symbols/msbm10.tfm already exists. kpathsea: Running mktextfm msbm10 mktextfm: /var/lib/texmf/tfm/ams/symbols/msbm10.tfm already exists. [1] [2] [3] (desc.aux) [1] ) Output written on desc.dvi (4 pages, 8672 bytes). Transcript written on desc.log. The log file contains nothing remarkable. Paul Hughett
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5326 ***
I made the modification suggested in bug report #5326 but this had no effect on the problem. After some experimentation I found that removing the line export TEXFONTS=.:$HOME/tex/fonts:/var/lib/texmf/ did fix the problem, whether or not the modification from #5326 was installed. I have been using TeX for going on ten years now, and set up the environment variables several years ago; it appears that the newest kpathsea configuration is incompatible with the old environment variables.