kpathsea problem

Eli Zaretskii eliz@is.elta.co.il
Mon, 7 Jun 1999 09:21:37 +0300 (IDT)


On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Hans Hagen wrote:

> A few days ago I encountered some problems with kpsewhich which sounds
> similar. Can it be that on a novell network the search fails? 

It could well be.  Novell clients have nasty habits of changing
pathnames returned by some system calls in unexpected ways.  The best
way to find out is to run kpsewhich with KPSE_DEBUG set to -1, and
post here the full trace of the search.