Re: file fmutil

Greg Bennett <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.live
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In /usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/web2c there is temmf.cnf (950 lines).
One of its 'definitions' is  TEXFMROOT = $SELFAUTOPARENT
which I assume is OK.

Otherwise (apart from fmutil) is TEXFMROOT (which seems to be causing 
the difficulty) used at all ?

Greg Bennett

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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