[l2h] latex2html 99.1 TEXINPUTS problem (w/ patch)

[Ralf Fassel]

I hope this address is valid for sending bug reports for
latex2html. The one mentioned in the source file bounces
(latex2html@mcs.anl.gov)..

1) There should be a prominent note in the latex2html distribution
   about where to send bug reports, and the wrong addres in latex2html
   itself should be corrected.

2) the handling of `TEXINPUTS' in latex2html 99.1 is incorrect:
   the contents of $ENV{TEXINPUTS} are not passed to texexpand, and
   texexpand will fail due to looking in the wrong directories.

   The mailing list archive did show some messages related to this,
   none of which seemed to fix the real problem.

   Proposed change: pass $ENV{'TEXINPUTS'} instead of $TEXINPUTS to
   texexpand:

diff -c /software/latex2html/99.1/latex2html.ORIG /software/latex2html/99.1/latex2html
*** /software/latex2html/99.1/latex2html.ORIG	Thu Apr  1 13:03:55 1999
--- /software/latex2html/99.1/latex2html	Mon Oct 18 16:31:19 1999
***************
*** 975,981 ****
  #	    unless (-x $TEXEXPAND);
  	&syswait("$TEXEXPAND $dbg -auto_exclude $unseg "
  		 . "-save_styles $DESTDIR${TMP_}styles "
! 		 . ($TEXINPUTS ? "-texinputs $TEXINPUTS " : '' )
  		 . (($VERBOSITY >2) ? "-verbose " : '' )
  		 . "$texfilepath$dd$FILE.$EXT > $DESTDIR$TMP_$FILE")
  	    && die " texexpand  failed: $!\n";
--- 975,981 ----
  #	    unless (-x $TEXEXPAND);
  	&syswait("$TEXEXPAND $dbg -auto_exclude $unseg "
  		 . "-save_styles $DESTDIR${TMP_}styles "
!  		 . ($ENV{'TEXINPUTS'} ? "-texinputs $ENV{'TEXINPUTS'} " : '' )
  		 . (($VERBOSITY >2) ? "-verbose " : '' )
  		 . "$texfilepath$dd$FILE.$EXT > $DESTDIR$TMP_$FILE")
  	    && die " texexpand  failed: $!\n";

Diff finished at Mon Oct 18 16:31:23

Regards
R'
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