[tex-live] TEXINPUTS problem

Akira Kakuto kakuto at fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp
Sun Oct 17 03:02:38 CEST 2004


> >>> I suspect that xetex is based on the other Kpathsearch, because
> >>> the banner says Web2C 7.5.2:
> >>
> >>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.871 (Web2C 7.5.2) (INITEX)
> >>
> >> For this purpose, the kpathsea version should not make a differemce.
> 
> It seems that it does. I installed a TL2004 setup, and confirmed that 
> kpsewhich finds babel/hyphen.cfg using either the program-specific 
> TEXINPUTS or the default:

Probably I've found a reason.
In the old version, "progname" is not defined. Thus
TEXINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/tex/{$progname,generic,}//
is the same as
TEXINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/tex/{,generic,}//        % :-)

-- 
Akira Kakuto



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