My Texmf tree came from the stock teTeX 1.0.2 (before the cygwin texmf-tiny/texmf-base was announced)./usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf came from cygwin tetex-2001218-1 (as it should be). As for whether it is sane - I should think so if tetex-20001218-1 is sane. Without setting TEXMFMAIN, it looks like latex is trying to look for the texmf tree under //share rather than /usr/share .
At the top of /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf it said "TEXMFMAIN = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf" and my guess is that $SELFAUTOPARENT is not set correctly, but this is the only file where SELFAUTOPARENT is mentioned as far as I notice. The teTeX binaries on linux or other unix platforms are built to remember to find the texmf tree under some directory set at compilation-time (usually /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, /usr/share, /usr/local/share) unless over-ridden by setting TEXMF/TEXMFMAIN/TEXMFLOCAL and I can see why the cygwin binaries shouldn't be able to do it correctly... -----Original Message----- From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 January 2002 10:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New on sourceware: texmf-20000804-2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have been using 20001218-1 for quite a while now ... but I have > always had problems with having to set some environment variables. Did you install any of the texmf-tiny or texmf-base packages? > It is currently fully functional including typesetting CJK > documents, but it bugs me that I have to set TEXMFMAIN because I did > not need to do that when I was in my good old linux years... Any > ideas? Return to Linux, and enjoy many more of those good years? [Hmm, wrong list ;-)] Do you have a (sane) config file: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf If not, please reinstall texmf-tiny or texmf-base. > -----Original Message----- [SNIP 100 useless lines] Greetings, Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/