Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context writes: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2021, Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context wrote: > > > But, as I said, my texmf.cnf sets TEXMFCACHE to $TEXMFSYSVAR;$TEXMFVAR, > > and TEXMFSYSVAR is /var/opt/texlive. Why is that ignored? > > mtxrun (and context MKIV and LMTX) do not read texmf.cnf rather read values > from contextcnf.lua (it used to be texmfcnf.lua, not sure how TL handles > this).
Thanks a lot. That put me on the right track. I see that this file is mentioned on the wiki, but I hadn't recognized its importance. I have found and edited texmfcnf.lua, and made progress. > You can also try setting it explicitly in the shell: > > $ TEXMFCACHE=/var/opt/texlive/texmf-cache mtxrun --generate I tried to avoid that, and thanks to your pointer above, won't need that. However, I'm still not completely happy: I've set TEXMFCACHE to contain /var/opt/texlive first and then also an individual directory under $HOME. When I run context under my personal account, it only uses the second. I assume that's because I may not write under the first. There's a comment in texmfcnf.lua about that. Does it perhaps make no sense at all to have a system-wide luatex-cache? Thank you, Rainer ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
