[tex-live] xindy doesn't work on windows
Philip TAYLOR
P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk
Thu Aug 23 08:02:11 CEST 2012
Akira Kakuto wrote:
> perl module Spec/Win32.pm says:
>
> Returns a string representation of the first existing directory
> from the following list:
>
> $ENV{TMPDIR}
> $ENV{TEMP}
> $ENV{TMP}
> SYS:/temp
> C:\system\temp
> C:/temp
> /tmp
> /
>
> As I stated previously,
> TEMP="somedir" is bad, it should be TEMP=somedir
OK, fine, thank you, understood. So it is a Perl convention, possibly
adopted from Posix (MD) or Cygwin (RK). All is now clear.
** Phil.
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