Spurious TEXLIVE_INSTALL_NO_DISKCHECK complaint when installing TL
Max Chernoff <[email protected]> Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:19:40 -0600
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.tex.live |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi all,
I just installed TL (install-tl-20260731), and the installer gave me the
following complaint:
The following environment variables contain the string "tex"
(case-independent). If you're doing anything but adding personal
directories to the system paths, they may well cause trouble somewhere
while running TeX. If you encounter problems, try unsetting them.
Please ignore spurious matches unrelated to TeX. (To omit this check,
set the environment variable TEXLIVE_INSTALL_ENV_NOCHECK.)
TEXLIVE_INSTALL_NO_DISKCHECK=3D1
I ran the install in an isolated container, so I have essentially zero
environment variables set:
$ printenv
HOSTNAME=3D1dbe53ae2c75
PWD=3D/root/install-tl-20260731
container=3Doci
HOME=3D/root
TERM=3Dxterm
SHLVL=3D1
PATH=3D/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin
_=3D/usr/bin/printenv
OLDPWD=3D/root
So I'm pretty sure that install-tl itself set the
TEXLIVE_INSTALL_NO_DISKCHECK variable, and therefore shouldn't warn
about it.
Thanks,
-- Max