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

Olaf Weber olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl
24 Oct 2002 18:42:11 +0200


Thomas Esser writes:

>> 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...

How urgent is it to fix this -- assuming it is (reasonably) fixable.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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