[tex-k] Kpathsearch tilde expansion bug

Ajit Thakkar ajit at unb.ca
Fri Nov 28 14:04:04 CET 2008


On WinXP, tilde expansion does not work as expected with kpathsea v3.57 and
v3.56.

~ is expanded to $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH _even_ if $HOME has been set.

A work around is to use $HOME instead of ~ in texmf.cnf

Ajit Thakkar


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