[arch] Arch 0.8 / extra / office / tetex : to slow!

[Jason Chu]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:36:52 +0700
kyanh <kyanh at o2.pl> wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> LateX (part of tetex) on Arch 0.8 runs very very slowly. It searchs
> for ~/.texmf-config in every (sub)directories of my $HOME. So
> strangely! Everything that tex should look for is the files in
> current directory (doesnot include its sub directories) and the
> $HOME/.texmf-config.
> 
> Please explain! I cannot suffer this very slow tetex!

I don't know, but I don't have the same thing on my system...

Thanks for giving lines to recreate it.  Very easy to check! :)

> $ time latex foobar.tex
> # tex log goes here
> 
> real	0m3.259s
> user	0m1.988s
> sys	0m0.764s

real    0m0.063s
user    0m0.049s
sys     0m0.011s

> # use strace to see what goes wrong...
> 
> $strace latex foobar.tex

[jchu at wingnut ~]$ strace latex foobar.tex 2>&1 | grep texmf-config
stat64("/home/jchu/.texmf-config", 0xbf8b70dc) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
stat64("/usr/share/texmf-config", 0xbf8b70dc) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)

Jason
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