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Re: texinfo-6.7.92 pretest
From: |
Gavin Smith |
Subject: |
Re: texinfo-6.7.92 pretest |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 12:22:03 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) |
On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 10:03:12AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Thu, 01 Jul 2021, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > > Have been looking at the `TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex` problem.
> > > The
> > > conclusion from installing texinfo has been the difficulty in locating
> > > the correct path for texmf. We could write more detailed section about
> > > it.
>
> [...]
>
> > > texmf can be installed in a variety of places. The manual (installation
> > > part)
> > > should list some of the possibilities where texmf could reside.
> >
> > I don't know very much about it, is there documentation for TeX Live
> > etc. that we could refer users to?
>
> That is really hard to determine, because distributions and TeX Live
> upstream might use completely different locations - not might, *are*
> using ...
>
> The best option is probably to install into
> kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL
> that is
> TEXMF=$(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL) install-tex
> Any other directory might get purged, deleted, ignored, whatever by
> distribution package managers (apt, dnf, ...). TEXMFLOCAL is normally
> rather stable.
That's useful to know. I edited doc/README and added this. Running make
install refers the user to doc/README so I expect this is enough
documentation of this issue.
I actually don't really understand why we couldn't just install the files
automatically under TEXMFLOCAL but I am taking the word of previous
documentation that trying to install automatically is fraught with
difficulties. I suspect that TEXMFLOCAL hasn't always existed or doesn't
exist everywhere. I found old emails discussing whether to use TEXMF or
TEXMFMAIN along with a program called "texconfig" (this was in the context
of tetex which isn't developed anymore).
- Re: texinfo-6.7.92 pretest,
Gavin Smith <=
- Re: texinfo-6.7.92 pretest, Norbert Preining, 2021/07/01
- Re: texinfo-6.7.92 pretest, Patrice Dumas, 2021/07/01
- texinfo-6.7.92 pretest, Christopher Dimech, 2021/07/01
- Re: texinfo-6.7.92 pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/01
- texinfo-6.7.92 pretest, Christopher Dimech, 2021/07/01
- Re: texinfo-6.7.92 pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/01
- texinfo-6.7.92 pretest, Christopher Dimech, 2021/07/01
- Re: texinfo-6.7.92 pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/02
- texinfo-6.7.92 pretest, Christopher Dimech, 2021/07/02
- Re: texinfo-6.7.92 pretest, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/03