Path sources

A search path can come from many sources. In the order in which Kpathsea uses them:

1. A user-set environment variable, e.g., TEXINPUTS. Environment variables with an underscore and the program name appended override; for example, TEXINPUTS_latex overrides TEXINPUTS if the program being run is named `latex'.
2. A program-specific configuration file, e.g., an `S /a:/b' line in Dvips' `config.ps' (see section `Config files' in Dvips).
3. A line in a Kpathsea configuration file `texmf.cnf', e.g., `TEXINPUTS=/c:/d' (see below).
4. The compile-time default (specified in `kpathsea/paths.h').

You can see each of these values for a given search path by using the debugging options (see section Debugging).

These sources may be combined via default expansion (see section Default expansion).

• Config files: Kpathsea's runtime config files (texmf.cnf).

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