Monday, April 19, 2010

TeX woes

After a recent macports update I had issues getting TeX to recognize the local files installed in
~/Library/texmf
. I re-ran texhash, but to no avail. Long story short, it turned out that the issue was not with texhash, but with the search path for kpathsea in
/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c
. Changing the 'TEXMFHOME' variable to the default setting did the trick. In addition, to prevent further updates from overwriting the change, edit the first line and alter the word 'original' (to, for example, 'custom').

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