Re: LaTeX/Emacs problem

[Fred Krogh <fkrogh@mathalacarte.com>]

On 01/06/2013 02:41 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
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> Am 06.01.2013 um 22:52 schrieb Fred Krogh:
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>> I'm running TeXLive on a gentoo linux system.
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> You might also like to check the texmf.cnf file. Could be that TeX is set up incorrectly. Look for file_line_error_style! And better correct the value in it's local copy, containing only the local changes from the defaults. (Because otherwise your change might be removed by a TeX update.)
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Thanks, this looked like a really good suggestion.  So I found 
/etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf and I had no /etc/texmf.cnf.  Following 
instructions I created the file /etc/texmf.cnf and put the following 
into it.

% Control file:line:error style messages.
file_line_error_style = t

since the /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf had that line with f where I put a 
t at the end of the line.  I expected this to work, but it behaves the 
same way.  This being gentoo, I looked for the package this file belongs 
to, "equery b /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf", and no package seems to own 
the file.  (I was going to reinstall whatever package claimed the file.) 
  On a (second) guess I reinstalled auctex, and that changed the time 
stamp on the file even though that file is not listed as belonging to 
auctex??

So I am very open to further suggestions.