[tex-live] mkluatexfontdb version 1.07, database version 2.009 crashes

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sun Jun 6 22:51:39 CEST 2010


On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:47:53PM +0200, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Le 06/06/2010 22:31, Peter Dyballa a écrit :
> > It's rather the other way round, because mtxrun does not crash. The
> > reason can also be deduced from this:
> > 
> >     MTXrun | fontnames: globbing path /Library/Fonts/**.AFM
> >     MTXrun | fontnames: globbing path /System/Library/Fonts/**.AFM
> > 
> > It seems to work according the flat earth theory in MS-DOS and does not
> > descend into subdirectories... (which I do have, I can be neat, some times)
> > 
> I don't know what mtxrun does exactly, but in some situations, ** (as opposed to
> a single *) in a pattern precisely means "descend in subdirectories" (or, said
> otherwise, "match '/' too"). So, I'm not so sure mtxrun doesn't descend in
> subdirectories.

It does, the double asterisk denotes recursive "globbing".

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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