bug in mktexlsr ?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 15 Mar 2000, Fabrice Popineau wrote:

> But in this case the directory name is considered to be absolute,
> where it is not really true. I mean : it is absolute as long as you do
> not change your current drive.

The easiest way to fight these nuisances is to make the argument 
fully-qualified (including the drive letter) early in the main function, 
and then proceed with the rest.

This has a side effect of reporting the file name not exactly as the user 
typed it (e.g. in informative or error messages), but in my experience
users easily adapt to this.

I don't see any alternative ways of solving this particular problem in a 
clean way, since the innards of Kpathsea (quite rightfully) treat \foo\bar 
as an absolute file name, and the code has the Unix notion of a single 
root directory deeply entrenched into it.