[lltx] luatexbase-loader having problems with symbolic links

[Philipp Gesang]

···<date: 2013-08-16, Friday>···<from: Wolfgang Jeltsch>···

> Hi,
> 
> can you *please* look (again) at this bug report I sent on 3 August?

Hi Wolfgang,

this is a consequence of initializing kpathsea. Your example can
be condensed to:


  \documentclass {article}
  \usepackage {pkg1}
  \directlua {kpse.set_program_name "luatex"}
  \usepackage {pkg2}

  \begin{document} \ldots \end{document}

Once kpse is up, files in symlinked dirs aren’t resolved anymore.
Note that this is consistent with the behavior of kpsewhich. I
haven’t much experience with the kpse library. There is not much
to configure about it from within Luatex, and unless you are
willing to go at great lengths to reimplement all file locators
(like Context) it can’t be avoided. 

Best,
Philipp


> 
> Best wishes,
> Wolfgang
> 
> Am Samstag, den 03.08.2013, 13:20 +0300 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I’m working under Linux and use TeXlive 2013, which contains
> > luatexbase-loader v0.6 from 11 May 2013.
> > 
> > I have some symbolic links under $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex that point to
> > directories that contain LaTeX packages. Usually, I can import these
> > packages without problems using \usepackage. However when I import
> > luatexbase-loader, then import of the abovementioned local packages
> > isn’t possible anymore.
> > 
> > For example, let’s assume that I have two packages called abc and xyz
> > under directories linked to from $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex. Consider the
> > following LaTeX source:
> > 
> >     \documentclass{article}
> > 
> >     \usepackage{abc}
> >     \usepackage{luatexbase-loader}
> >     \usepackage{xyz}
> > 
> >     \begin{document}
> > 
> >     \ldots
> > 
> >     \end{document}
> > 
> > Processing this source with LuaLaTeX gives me the following error
> > message:
> > 
> >     ! LaTeX Error: File `xyz.sty' not found.
> > 
> > Could this problem maybe be fixed?
> > 
> > Best wishes,
> > Wolfgang
> > 
> 
> 
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