[tex-live] texdoc should always use TEXDOCS

Frank Küster frank at debian.org
Thu Mar 15 16:40:23 CET 2007


Hi,

a Debian user has noticed that, although texdoc uses 'kpsewhich
--format="TeX system documentation"' and thus the $TEXDOCS variable for
its main work, the search mode accesses $TEXMF/doc directly and ignores
changes/additions in TEXDOC.

The following patch would make it more consistent:

--- src/Upstream-source/TeXLive/Build/source/texk/tetex/texdoc.orig	2007-03-15 16:36:30.000000000 +0100
+++ src/Upstream-source/TeXLive/Build/source/texk/tetex/texdoc	2007-03-15 16:37:20.000000000 +0100
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
 do
   case $mode in
     search)
-      find `kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMF/doc' | tr : ' '` -type f -print |
+      find `kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXDOCS' | tr : ' '` -type f -print |
         egrep $name
       continue
       ;;

(too simple to be copyrightable, of course).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)


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