[XeTeX] Buggy behaviour of install-xetex script
Jonathan Kew
jonathan_kew at sil.org
Tue Jun 13 13:53:35 CEST 2006
On 13 Jun 2006, at 12:35 pm, Wlodek Bzyl wrote:
>
> On Fedora 5 the following line
>
> texbin=`readlink ${texbin}`
>
> yields
>
> pdfetex
>
> instead of the full pathname
>
> /usr/bin/pdfetex
>
> To force the readlink program to produce the full pathname
> it suffices to call it with `-f' option:
>
> texbin=`readlink -f ${texbin}`
>
Oh, so Fedora has decided to make "tex" a symlink to pdfetex, rather
than including a strictly tex-only binary. I guess that's been coming
for a while.
Unfortunately, not all implementations of readlink support the -f
option (e.g., BSD doesn't have it). Anyone know a simple way to do
this portably?
JK
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