Re: [PyX-devel] start from home-directory

[Arnd B. <arn...@we...>]

Hi Andre,

thanks for the quick response.
The crucial question which helped me was:

> I'm not sure, but it seems to be that TeX is not able to
> start at all. And this looks like some temporary file name. (You can
> say "tex" in both directories, don't you?

I can, but it takes much longer in my home-directory:
time latex t.tex:
  Subdirectory:   0.06s user 0.01s system 140% cpu 0.050 total
  Homedirectory:  7.89s user 1.96s system 69% cpu 14.136 total
And the origin of this was me setting
  TEXINPUTS=:.//:${TEXINPUTS}
I.e. all subdirectories are searched recursively
(which is fine in many situations, but this is not so
good  when starting from the home-directory)
Because of this we hit the <=5s border and pyx fails.
To confirm this I added a
  text.set(waitfortex=30)
and it works fine (though slow ;-).

To summarize: even on a single platform
one can get easily beyong the 5s limit
with a wierd set-up ;-)

So many thanks for your help!!

> > [ptpl14] ~ $ python hello.py
> > tmp5f9pw-
>
> What's this?

This seems to be the temporary file-name, created by PyX, I suppose.
I still see this after correcting my screwed setup.

Hmm, I haven't seen this with PyX-0.4, as far as I remember
(the above is with todays CVS).

Many thanks,

Arnd