
The texdist
tool and TeXDist design
A shell script named texdist
allows to run a command in the context of a given distribution.
It provides an interface to the TeX Distribution structures.
The script Basic functions are listing and running commands. E.g.
texdist --texdist=gwTeX "kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf"
will run the "kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf
" command with the gwTeX distribution, while
texdist --texdist=TeXLive-2007 "kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf"
will do the same with the TeX Live 2007 distribution. See "texdist --usage
" for complete and up to date instructions...
texdist
is located in /Library/TeX/.scripts
(invisible in the Finder) and it is symlinked from /usr/local/bin
.
The TeXDist directory structure and use are explained in a note from G. Wierda.