[tex-live] xindy doesn't work on windows

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Wed Aug 22 13:06:59 CEST 2012


2012/8/22 Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de>:
> Am Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:37:43 +0900 schrieb Akira Kakuto:
>
>> Dear Ulrike,
>>
>>> TEMP=J:¥temp works fine, while TEMP="J:¥temp temp" fails with the
>>> same error. (Actually with *exactly* the same error: The error
>>> message again refers to "C:¥¥DOKUME¯1¥¥User¥¥LOKALE¯1¥¥Temp¥¥").
>>>
>>> So it is (not unsurprisingly) the space. But why I'm the only one
>>> affected with the problem? I can't be the only windows user with a
>>> TEMP pointing to %Userprofile ;-(.
>>
>> Sorry, the problem will be solved in the next update.
>> If you are in a hurry, please apply the following patch:
>
> Well I'm not in a hurry (and if I were I could simply change TEMP)
> but I'm curious so I change xindy.pl but the error message is
> unchanged.
>
> I run some tests with -d script. If TEMP is J:\temp then the
> compilation starts like this:
>
> I:\Z-Test>set TEMP=J:\temp
>
> I:\Z-Test>xindy -d script -M texindy -L german-duden orte.idx
> concatenated xindy input file: J:\temp\ZImrBujKoR
>
> And all messages refers to the TEMP folder.
>
>
>
> But if TEMP contains a space xindy goes "back" to the userprofile:
>
> I:\Z-Test>set TEMP="J:\temp temp"
>
> I:\Z-Test>xindy -d script -M texindy -L german-duden orte.idx
> concatenated xindy input file:
> C:\DOKUME~1\User\LOKALE~1\Temp\TGp0UhUthu
> .....
>
What I do not like on Windows is the ~1 type of file name shortening.
It may easily point to a wrong file or directory depending on the
history of file creation and deletion. Aren't perl and lua able to use
the original long names? And is TEMP used in perl only, or is it
needed in xindy? Maybe tilde needs to be escaped for LISP. I do not
know, just guessing...

> (I made sure that the modified xindy.pl is used by inserting a
> message. And my real user name doesn't contain spaces or something
> fishy.)
>
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
> http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
>



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