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

Philip TAYLOR P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk
Thu Aug 23 08:02:11 CEST 2012



Akira Kakuto wrote:

> perl module Spec/Win32.pm says:
> 
> Returns a string representation of the first existing directory
> from the following list:
> 
>      $ENV{TMPDIR}
>      $ENV{TEMP}
>      $ENV{TMP}
>      SYS:/temp
>      C:\system\temp
>      C:/temp
>      /tmp
>      /
> 
> As I stated previously,
> TEMP="somedir" is bad, it should be TEMP=somedir

OK, fine, thank you, understood.  So it is a Perl convention, possibly
adopted from Posix (MD) or Cygwin (RK).  All is now clear.

** Phil.


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