texlive kpathsea ignores TEXMFHOME

texlive kpathsea ignores TEXMFHOME

[Fulbert]

Hello ! As the little shell session illustrates below, 'kpathsea' fails
to search/find files in TEXMFHOME on my “Guix system” setup . Anyone
else having the same problem ? Any suggestion ?

#+begin_example
$ ls -l $(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME)/**/lettre-default.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 fulbert users 2034  4 mai 20:11 /home/fulbert/texmf/tex/latex/lettre/lettre-default.cfg
$
$ kpsewhich lettre-default.cfg
/home/fulbert/.guix-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lettre/lettre-default.cfg
$
$ guix package --list-installed | grep texlive | cut -f1
texlive-scheme-basic
texlive-lettre
texlive-collection-latexextra
texlive-collection-latex
texlive-collection-xetex
texlive-collection-latexrecommended
texlive-collection-fontsrecommended
texlive-collection-langfrench
…
#+end_example

Re: texlive kpathsea ignores TEXMFHOME

[Nicolas Goaziou via]

Hello,

Fulbert <fulbert@bluewin.ch> writes:

> Hello ! As the little shell session illustrates below, 'kpathsea' fails
> to search/find files in TEXMFHOME on my “Guix system” setup .

Indeed. I fixed this issue in "tex-team" branch.

Meanwhile, you may set TEXMF environment variable to "'{$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFDIST}'"

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

[SOLVED] Re: texlive kpathsea ignores TEXMFHOME

[Fulbert]

Le Sat, May 11, 2024 at 04:13:23PM +0200, Nicolas Goaziou via a écrit :
> Hello,

Hello Nicolas and thank you for the workaround and for the upcomming
fix !

> Indeed. I fixed this issue in "tex-team" branch.
> 
> Meanwhile, you may set TEXMF environment variable to "'{$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFDIST}'"

#+begin_example
$ kpsewhich "lettre-default.cfg"
/home/fulbert/.guix-profile/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lettre/lettre-default.cfg

$ TEXMF='{$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFDIST}' kpsewhich "lettre-default.cfg"
/home/fulbert/texmf/tex/latex/lettre/lettre-default.cfg
#+end_example

Workaround tested and approved ;-)

Regards,
Fulbert