Re: file fmutil

Norbert, thanks for this ..ran your code echo $? returns 0

So the if ($?) clause *is* triggered in my case.

I ran unset TEXMFROOT and its gone. Still no change.

Here are lines 13 - 25 of my fmutil .. are they correct ?
<snip>
my $TEXMFROOT;

BEGIN {
   $^W = 1;
   $TEXMFROOT = `kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFROOT`;
   if ($?) {
    die "$0: kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFROOT failed, aborting early.\n";
   }
   chomp($TEXMFROOT);
   unshift(@INC, "$TEXMFROOT/tlpkg", 
"$TEXMFROOT/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive");
   require "mktexlsr.pl";
   TeX::Update->import();
}
<snip>
Cheers
Greg

On 2025-11-25 17:08, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2025, Greg Bennett wrote:
>> /usr/local/texlive/2025/bin/x86_64-linux/mktexfmt: kpsewhich
>> -var-value=TEXMFROOT failed, aborting early. BEGIN failed--compilation
> Wow!!! That is indeed strange.
>
> So what it does it runs
> 	kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFROOT
> and checks the return value.
>
> In my case, and practically in all cases, the return value is 0
> (success):
>
> 	❯ kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFROOT
> 	/home/norbert/tl/2025
> 	
> 	❯ echo $?
> 	0
>
> Why this fails on your side, no idea.
>
> Can you try
> 	kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFROOT
> and after that check the return value with
> 	echo $?
> ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Norbert
>
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