[gentoo-user] kpathsea(latex) search path problem

[gentoo-user] kpathsea(latex) search path problem

[Rodrigo Lazo]

Hi,

I've been facing a lot of issues using latex under my user for quite
some time and now I (think) finally get to the root of the problem. 

Using latex under my normal user is soooo frustraiting, it take about
5 or 6 second *just* to start compiling it. I use to wonder what it
was doing all that time, now I have some clues. Under root the
compilation was automatic, less than a second.

using this command:

latex -kpathsea-debug=25

under boot I found that as my user it searchs *ALL* my home directory. 

This is where the output of the above command is different:

AS ROOT
kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/root/.texmf-config) => 1
kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/root/.texmf-config) => 1
kdebug:path element /root/.texmf-config => /root/.texmf-config/
kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/root/.texmf-config/ls-R) => 1
kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/root/.texmf-config/ls-r) => 1

AS MY USER

kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/home/rodrigo//.texmf-config) => 1
kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/home/rodrigo//.texmf-config) => 1
kdebug:dir_links(/home/rodrigo/m) => -1
kdebug:dir_links(/home/rodrigo/r) => -1
.
.
.
(all my directory hierarchy, a some of thousand of file)
kdebug:path element /home/rodrigo//.texmf-config => /home/rodrigo/.texmf-config/
kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/home/rodrigo/.texmf-config/ls-R) => 1
kdebug:kpse_normalize_path (/home/rodrigo/.texmf-config/ls-r) => 1

Why is that? How could I fix it?

Regards

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Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo)
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