[tex-k] Re: [tex-live] Problem with kpathsea (in latest web2c 7.3.9)

Thomas Esser te@dbs.uni-hannover.de
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:51:04 +0200


> In other words: does SELFAUTO... not work when I have stuff like ../..  
> in my PATH?

Yes, that's broken.

A shorter example:

$ export PATH=/software/oss/Text/teTeX-1.0/share/texmf/../../bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:$PATH
$ kpsewhich -expand-var=\$SELFAUTOLOC
/software/oss/Text/teTeX-1.0/share/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu

That "share" should not be there...

Thomas