per-user font caching in /tmp (was: Bug#388399: FTBFS problems on alpha, mips[el]: Please help debugging)
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 19:03 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> clone 388399 -1
> retitle -1 Font cache, when in /tmp, should use per-user directories
[...]
> But you are right, Steve, that it might cause problems. I make this a
> separate bug, and I'm already investigating a solution.
What solution do you investigate? There are two possibilities that come
to my mind:
* Don't define VARTEXFONTS at all. In that case VARTEXFONTS will default
to KPSE_DOT, which is the current directory. That way we will never
write outside the build directory. But I don't know if there are any
build systems that would get confused by having lots of mf-files in
the current directory.
* Don't define VARTEXFONTS at all and make a Debian-specific patch to
mktex.opt so that MT_VARTEXFONTS is set to a proper user specific
directory. One could, eg, just use TEMPDIR allready that is allready
set.
cheerio
ralf
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