Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 55286
HOMETEXMF not activated in texmf.cnf
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:37:50 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: In tetex configuration file /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf the environment The environment HOMETEXMF is commented out as is also the case with its integration into the general environment TEXMF. This is no problem for users with root privileges. But other users will not be able to define their 'private' texmf trees without assistance from sysadm. Hence (at least) the lines % HOMETEXMF = $HOME/texmf and TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN} should be activated. Alternatively this environment definition could be used TEXMF = {!!$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFMAIN} allowing non-root users to build private tree structured texmf-s Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mkdir $HOME/texmf 2. create some file $HOME/texmf/foo.tex 3. texhash $HOME/texmf 4. create another file $HOME/bar.tex containing '\input foo' 6. run tex $HOME/bar.tex Actual Results: TeX reports this error This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (test.tex ! I can't find file `foo'. l.1 \input foo Expected Results: TeX should have processed the content of $HOME/texmf/foo.tex Additional info:
I tried this: HOMETEXMF = $HOME/texmf TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFMAIN} and also this: HOMETEXMF = $HOME/texmf TEXMF = {!!$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFMAIN} I got "I can't find file `foo'" with both variations. What am I doing wrong?
Oh, it should be 1. mkdir -p $HOME/texmf/tex 2. create some file $HOME/texmf/tex/foo.tex 3. texhash $HOME/texmf 4. create another file $HOME/bar.tex containing '\input foo' 5. run tex $HOME/bar.tex right?
My main point is that at installation /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf should have the environment HOMETEXMF defined and included into the main TeX environment TEXMF. As it is now the lines containing these environment definitions are commented out. If HOMETEXMF is defined and included into TEXMF then a user with no root priviliges will be able to successfully do what I describe under 'Steps to Reproduce'. An example of a 'private' texmf tree could be the TeX files belonging to the music typesetting macros 'MusiXTeX'. See my HOWTO for MusiXTeX unix users http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/software/musixtex/musixtex-for-unix.html
Oops - I forgot to add that in connection with 'Steps to Reproduce' the command 'texhash $HOME/texmf' should be run between step 4 and 5.
Am I supposed to supply further information? I've received a message concerning this bug twice with an interval of a week.
No. I updated it to mark it as depending on another bug that was preventing the tetex bug from building in our build system. That's now fixed (which probably generated the second mail). The current package sets HOMETEXMF and also TEXMFLOCAL (to /usr/local/share/texmf). I'll close this bug report when the package shows up in rawhide.
What you write concerning the settings of HOMETEXMF and TEXMFLOCAL _could_ be read such that both environments are now defined as /usr/local/share/texmf. I Hope I misunderstand you :-) and that HOMETEXMF is defined as $HOME/texmf
Of course.
Fixed in tetex-1.0.7-36.3.