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[BUG] texlive-bin doesn't set $TEXMFCACHE properly

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Message #8 received at 55113 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Christopher Rodriguez <yewscion <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 55113 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55113: [BUG] texlive-bin doesn't set $TEXMFCACHE properly
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 20:30:39 -0400

Hi,

Christopher Rodriguez <yewscion <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm currently switching from using the monolithic texlive package to a
> bunch of the broken-out, smaller ones. However, when texlive-bin is
> installed (and thus, when luaotfload-tool is available), the environment
> variable $TEXMFCACHE is not defined. This leads to it being auto-detected
> (and incorrectly identified somehow as
> `$PWD/'{'$GUIX_PROFILE/share/texmf-dist` which is read-only.)

Could you share your workload to demonstrate the problem (reproducer),
if it's not too complicated?  texlive-bin sets GUIX_TEXMF; perhaps
TEXMFCACHE is derived from it in the default texlive config.

Thanks,

Maxim

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