Re: [gentoo-user] install problem: dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2017-r1

Karl:
> Is this a bug or is there something wrong on my side ?
>
> * Messages for package dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2017-r1:
>
>  * ERROR: dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2017-r1::gentoo failed (compile phase):
>  *   failed to build format texmf-dist/fmtutil/format.texlive-basic.cnf
>  *
>  * Call stack:
>  *     ebuild.sh, line  124:  Called src_compile
>  *   environment, line 1938:  Called texlive-module_src_compile
>  *   environment, line 2756:  Called die
>  * The specific snippet of code:
>  *               VARTEXFONTS="${T}/fonts" TEXMFHOME="${S}/texmf:${S}/texmf-dist:${S}/texmf-var" env -u TEXINPUTS fmtutil --cnffile "${i}" --fmtdir "${S}/texmf-var/web2c" --all || die "failed to build format ${i}";
...

The error went away by doing:

unset XTERM_LOCALE PKG_CONFIG_PATH LC_CTYPE
grep -l /etc/texmf /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS | cut -f5,6 -d/
# which gave me thoose two:
emerge -C texlive-core-2017-r3 kpathsea-6.2.3_p20170524
rm -rf /etc/texmf

emerge @world

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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