[tex-live] Interference with Embarcadero C++Builder?

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Fri Nov 6 15:22:46 CET 2009


On Fr, 06 Nov 2009, Jörn Clausen wrote:
> It seems the path .../RAD Studio/6.0/Bpl is already contained in the
> path, and ...\RAD Studio\6.0\BPL should be added. Is there anything in

Ouch ...
	...\BPL
and
	...\Bpl
is *the*same* on Windows. 

So yes, there is a problem, but I don't see that it is in TL:
- the TL installer adds the texlive's bin/win32 to the path, but also
  checks that the paths do not contain a tex already. So it recreates
  the path variable, but in this it uses exactely what is returned
  from the system path.

- it seems that the check in RAD Studio is broken in the sense that
  it checks without upper-casing (or lower-casing) the full path
  before comparison.

So the bug is in the RAD STudio, but it was triggered by us.

The problem is that I don't see what we can make different. We keep exactely
the path as returned from the perl library, i.e. as found in the registry.
Why your program then insists on BPL instelad of Bpl ... no idea.

Best wishes

Norbert

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