[tex-live] Re: Change of BSTINPUTS entry in tex-common

[Arne Jørgensen]

Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> writes:

> Hallo Frank!
>
> First complaint from texlive testing people about the BSTINPUT stuff:

Not really a complaint ... just a wish / information / whatever

> On Don, 21 Jul 2005, Arne Jørgensen wrote:
>> In /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf BSTINPUTS is defined as
>> 
>>    BSTINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/bibtex/bst//
>> 
>> TeX Live is shipped with an kpathsearch enable version of bibtex8 and
>> searches its sorting order files (.csf) along the BSTINPUTS-path.
>> Since the .csf files are installed under /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/csf/
>> the definition should be changed to
>> 
>>    BSTINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/bibtex/{bst,csf}//
>
> Can we add this to tex-common stuff 65BibTeX.cnf? Or is there a problem
> with tetex?

Tetex doesn't ship bibtex8, but changing BSTINPUTS will not do any
harm to tetex.

Kind regards,
-- 
Arne Jørgensen <http://arnested.dk>
DK-TUG / Danish TeX Users Group <http://www.tug.dk/>