[tex-live] install-tl inserts 2013/.. in TEXMFLOCAL

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Sat Jun 1 17:10:19 CEST 2013


2013/6/1 Wybo Dekker <wybo at dekkerdocumenten.nl>:
> There are solutions for any language, I'm sure.
> Such solutions are not always very *very* easy and simple, as we have
> seen for the bash proposal and Karl's comments on it.
>
> But my point is that it should not be needed to find solutions for
> things that don't work as advertised in the first place.
>
Was it explicitely advertised that in returns the absolute path?

> And why would we want an important TeX variable to have an illogical,
> non-intuitive value? Only because it is so difficult to produce it?
>
> And finally: if the solution is so very *very* simple, why not build it
> into kpsewhich's output routine?
>
As was already written, it requires recompilation of kpsea library for
all platforms but it is now too late to build new binaries for TL
2013.

> On 2013-06-01 14:59, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> after so many mails, a very simple proposal:
>>
>>> This is correct, of course, but as I use kpsewhich in scripts to create
>>> links
>>
>> Why don't you simple call something like linkdest, abspat, pwd or whatever your scripting language is to fix this in your scripts?
>>
>> Isn't that the simplest case?
>>
>> If *you* want to create something permanent from a program output in .../texlive/2013/bin/arch/ which works even after you are not using this dir any more, then please fix your scripts?
>>
>> In perl it is a trivial call to abs_path (afair), in shell it is readlink or pwd, etcetcetc.
>>
>> Very *very* easy and simple solution!
>>
>> Norbert
>>
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