kpathsea problem in Cygwin (noob here)

[Brooks Moses]

Larry Hall wrote:
> At 04:14 PM 9/21/2005, you wrote:
>>For posterity's sake:
>>
>>$ mktexlsr
>>mktexlsr: Updating /cygdrive/h/.texmf/config/ls-R...
>>mktexlsr: Updating /cygdrive/h/.texmf/var/ls-R...
>>mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/lilypond/2.4.3/ls-R...
>>mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R...
>>mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R...
>>mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
>>mktexlsr: Done.
>>
>>:D
> 
> Well done. :-)  I'm glad you were able to make headway with this since
> my knowledge of tetex is basically NULL. 

For future reference, the comp.text.tex newsgroup is fairly good for 
this sort of thing, either live or checking the archives on Google Groups.

Also, fwiw, there's a "texhash" command that's aliased to mktexlsr.  I 
assume there's some historical reason to have two names for the same thing.

- Brooks


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