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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2023-04-10 22:30:22 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2023-04-10 22:30:22 +0000 |
commit | 3fda135732e5a7ae2d5b2beab1c6595fddbf05ae (patch) | |
tree | 1876320ca225bd1b68866f2e32102faf6e3e0e44 /Master/texmf-dist/web2c | |
parent | 65349652436d02557a4c03fd6ad38495f4c2d785 (diff) |
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git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@66822 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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-rw-r--r-- | Master/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf b/Master/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf index 0927bed4688..ec58bb91b4f 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf @@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ % Sorry for the off-by-one-generation names. TEXMFROOT = $SELFAUTOPARENT +% The various texmf trees used by TeX Live, follow. +% They must must all have the TDS directory structure (https://tug.org/tds). + % The main tree of distributed packages and programs: TEXMFDIST = $TEXMFROOT/texmf-dist @@ -94,7 +97,7 @@ TEXMFCONFIG = ~/.texlive2023/texmf-config % value, hence the empty braces. TEXMFAUXTREES = {} -% List all the texmf trees. For an explanation of what they are, see the +% List of all the texmf trees. For an explanation of what they are, see the % TeX Live manual. % % For texconfig to work properly, TEXMFCONFIG and TEXMFVAR should be named @@ -105,8 +108,8 @@ TEXMFAUXTREES = {} % generally a source of confusion to have different versions of a % package installed, whatever the trees, so try to avoid it. % -% The odd-looking $TEXMFAUXTREES$TEXMF... construct is so that if no auxtree is -% ever defined (the 99% common case), no extra elements will be added to +% The odd-looking $TEXMFAUXTREES$TEXMF... construct is so that if no auxtree +% is defined (99% common case), no extra elements will be added to % the search paths. tlmgr takes care to end any value with a trailing comma. TEXMF = {$TEXMFAUXTREES$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFDIST} @@ -114,7 +117,7 @@ TEXMF = {$TEXMFAUXTREES$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFS % this is all and only the !! elements of TEXMF, so that mktexlsr does not % create ls-R files in the non-!! elements -- because if an ls-R is % present, it will be used, and the disk will not (usually) be searched, -% regardless of !!. Although in principle a directory listed here need +% regardless of !!. Although in theory a directory listed here need % not contain an ls-R file, in practice they all should. TEXMFDBS = {!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFDIST} @@ -157,9 +160,11 @@ WEB2C = $TEXMF/web2c % This variable exists only to be redefined; it is used in nearly all % search paths. If a document has source files not only in the current % directory but also in subdirectories, it is convenient to set -% TEXMFDOTDIR=.// so that everything will be searched automatically. +% TEXMFDOTDIR=.// so that everything will be searched automatically, +% without the need to set up the TDS directory structure (since this is +% a "directory" and not a "tree"). % On the other hand, if you never want the current directory to be -% searched at all, setting TEXMFDOTDIR=/nonesuch should come close. +% searched at all, setting TEXMFDOTDIR=/nonesuch comes close. % TEXMFDOTDIR = . |