[tex-live] kpsewhich case insensitive?
Denis Bitouzé
dbitouze at wanadoo.fr
Sat Apr 7 00:14:31 CEST 2018
Le 06/04/18 à 21h46, Karl Berry a écrit :
> Is it the intended behavior? (I hope not)
>
> Yes, it is.
Sigh...
> I wrote a new section in the Kpathsea manual explaining it
> (Casefolding search), besides my various previous messages.
Read carefully tomorrow (not enough time this evening).
> To turn it off in your case, there are two choices:
>
> 1) set the config/envvar texmf_casefold_search to 0;
Sounds appealing! :)
> 2) specify TEXMFHOME with a leading !! in texmf.cnf, that is, using
> ls-R (thus requiring you to run mktexlsr when any files are added or
> removed, thus probably better not to do this.)
Indeed, doesn't sound appealing! :)
> Well, there is 3) renaming your case-conflicting file, but you already
> knew that.
Okay.
But I (and other users) could be bitten because of files they forgot or
they don't realize they could be conflicting (nearly happened to
me).
Hence why not the other way round: `texmf_casefold_search' 0 by default
and and letting users who want `kpathsea' insensitive to set it to 1?
> You can thank Apple and its users for inflicting this pain.
They are so much powerful? ;)
All the best.
--
Denis
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