[tex-live] behaviour of kpsewhich on case-insensitive mac system

[Justin C. Walker]

> On Sep 18, 2017, at 09:18 , jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question,
> 
> $ kpsewhich example-image-A.pdf
> 
> $ kpsewhich example-image-a.pdf
> /usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mwe/example-image-a.pdf

I’;m using TeXLive 2017 (up to date) on  on macOS 10.11.6.

I duplicated Phillip’s example (i.e., I got the same results he did).

I also used your example, with the same results, so I don’t understand why case should affect the outcome.

What versions of TeX and (I assume) macOS are you using?

> But I am on a case-insensitive file system:
> 
> $ touch foo
> 
> $ mv foo Foo
> 
> $ rm foo
> 
> $ ls Foo
> ls: Foo: No such file or directory
> 
> I was wondering why an `\includegraphics{example-image-A}` failed
> (which I got from some post on tex.sx) and I surmise from the above
> that this has possibly to do with kpsewhich or at least with the way
> pdftex finds files.
> 
> I guess the rationale is that if kpsewhich were to be
> case-insensitive on OSes with case insensitive file systems,
> TeX documents would more easily behave differently on different
> systems ?
> 
> Best
> 
> Jean-François
> 
> 

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