Re: Missing native-search-path for texlive

[Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>]

On 30/11/2015, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Yesterday, I try to use compile some document with context, so I
>> install texlive in guix. However, when I run "context --version", I
>> get the following error:
>>
>> mtxrun          | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua'
>>
>> After doing some searching, I find out that the following works:
>>
>> $ TEXMF=`guix build texlive-texmf` context --version
>>
>> What should I add to native-search-path to set the TEXMF variable to
>> the output path?
>
> It ‘TEXMF’ really a search path, or is it rather a variable that should
> point to a single directory?
>
I think it is a search path since both
`TEXMF=/gnu/store/gb4y83bvcpkvdmz0dvi9rp507kbdbr5x-texlive-texmf-2015
context --version` and
`TEXMF=/gnu/store/gb4y83bvcpkvdmz0dvi9rp507kbdbr5x-texlive-texmf-2015/share
context --version` works. But otherwise, I don't know how environment
variables in texlive works. I see there are other environmental
variables as well. For instance, TEXINPUTS, TEXMFLOCAL and TEXMFHOME.
But only TEXMF and TEXMFHOME works.

> If the issue is limited to the ‘context’ program, then we may be better
> off wrapping ‘context’ such that ‘TEXMF’ is always set appropriately.
>
> Thoughts?  Andreas?
>
> Ludo’.
>