Re: 2.99.11: yet another release candidate

> For Cygwin, I have been using using the following commands during
> postinstall
> 
>     unset MFINPUTS TEXINPUTS TEXMF TEXMFCNF TFMFONTS VARTEXFONTS
> 
>     texconfig rehash
>     texconfig confall
>     texconfig rehash
>     texconfig init
> 
>     # default dvips output to file
>     texconfig dvips printcmd -
> 
> to create the initial formats.  Can these just be replaced by
> texconfig-sys,


Yes, you should use texconfig-sys. It should be sufficient to run
  mktexlsr
  texconfig-sys init
  texconfig-sys dvips printcmd -

> and will that then update as before to the main tree?

No, this will not update $TEXMFMAIN. The map files / formats will be
written to TEXMFSYSVAR.

> (I'll test with .12 if I get the chance.)

Please, check if the settings for TEXMFVAR / TEXMFCONFIG make sense
on Cygwin.

Thomas