[OS X TeX] Duplicate texi* executables on Leopard

[Berend Hasselman]

On 12 Nov 2007, at 19:36, Frank STENGEL wrote:

>
> Le 12 nov. 07 à 19:16, Berend Hasselman a écrit :
>
> <snip>
>
>> I have run ls on /usr/bin with the following result
>>
>> [~]: ls -alT /usr/bin/texi*
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   28218 24 Sep 04:12:55 2007 /usr/bin/ 
>> texi2dvi
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  557096 24 Sep 03:48:03 2007 /usr/bin/ 
>> texi2html
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     660 24 Sep 04:12:55 2007 /usr/bin/ 
>> texi2pdf
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  102048 24 Sep 04:12:55 2007 /usr/bin/ 
>> texindex
>>
>> The same on /usr/texbin
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   28899 28 Dec 01:09:08 2005 /usr/texbin/ 
>> texi2dvi
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  617029 20 Jan 02:09:23 2007 /usr/texbin/ 
>> texi2html
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     660 28 Dec 01:09:08 2005 /usr/texbin/ 
>> texi2pdf
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   26620 15 Jan 02:21:45 2007 /usr/texbin/ 
>> texindex
>
> Same here with a clean install of 10.5. As far as I can say the  
> files in /usr/bin/ are part of 10.5. I just checked on my time  
> machine backup: these files appear in /usr/bin from the first backup  
> onwards...
>
> The caveat is that the versions differ:
>
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi is version 1.34
> /usr/texbin/texi2dvi is version 1.42
>
> By the way: what do they do? What is texinfo?
>

Type texi2dvi --help  and you will see

texi2dvi and texi2pdf run (pdf)LaTeX, BibTeX, etc. as many times as  
necessary to resolve references.
texinfo requires info input.

If they are part of 10.5, one wonders where the Apple TeX is.

Since my PATH contains .:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/ 
usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/bin
the Leopard stuff will be run.

I'm now thinking of putting /usr/texbin in front.

Berend