Re: [AUCTeX] Long loading time

[David Kastrup]

jfbu <address@hidden> writes:

> Le 30/04/2015 10:09, jfbu a écrit :
>> Thu Apr 30 10:04:30 CEST 2015 + kpsewhich --progname latex
> --expand-path $SYSTEXMF
>
> besides, shouldn't all those be
>
> kpsewhich --var-value SYSTEXMF
>
> etc ... ?
>
> indeed for example on my system I don't have any environment variable
> set relative to the TeX installation ...
>
> All the relevant path are all set-up in the  texmf.cnf file
> from the TeXLive distribution.
>
> from http://tug.org/texinfohtml/kpathsea.html#Path-expansion
>
> 5.3.2 Variable expansion
>
> ‘$foo’ or ‘${foo}’ in a path element is replaced by (1) the value of
> an environment variable ‘foo’ (if defined); (2) the value of ‘foo’
> from texmf.cnf (if defined); (3) the empty string.
>
> But with the syntax
>
> kpsewhich --progname latex --expand-path $SYSTEXMF
>
> $SYSTEXMF is not there as a path element

If it weren't, your logging program would have had a hard time showing
its name, wouldn't it?

-- 
David Kastrup