[tex-live] path search

[Olaf Weber]

Karl Berry writes:

>> no path searching should take place. (unless maybe a filename end
>> with // -)

> Certainly.  In my original code, I went to a lot of trouble to make
> absolute or explicitly relative paths not use the search paths (not in
> the same Olaf is, though, which sounds cleaner).  I don't know when or
> how the behavior changed ... Anyway ...

Fabrice sent me a guess in private mail that's almost certainly
correct.  It is my fault, of course.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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