I summarized this small discussion in the wiki as I also made a systemwide installation (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals#Cache)
Nicola wrote: > In article > <aanlktim8p_nsu=qf8r9ojvbd=bpzitwd_baov+exh...@mail.gmail.com>, > Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The variable TEXMFCACHE is set in >> tex/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua >> and that one should do the job. Under usual circumstances at least. >> >> If that one is not being respected, something might be wrong. Do you >> have any other texmfcnf.lua file somewhere else? > > No, I export TEXMFCACHE in my .profile, because I want the cache to be > inside my home folder. After running setuptex, ConTeXt minimals uses > that rather than the path specified in texmfcnf.lua. Since now I know > that luatex-cache can be shared, for me this is perfectly fine. I just > had to adjust the TeXShop engines (I am on Mac OS X) by explicitly > setting TEXMFCACHE for XeTeX and MKII, besides MKIV. > > So, if I get it right, the value in texmfcnf.lua is used unless > TEXMFCACHE is set. > > Nicola > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________