Dependencies

[David Carlisle]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 09:02, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 07 Nov 2019, David Carlisle wrote:
> > Yes, since the earliest drafts of latex2e latex goes to some lengths
> > to avoid the primitive missing file error loop where you have to give
> > it a file.
> > so it does \n \openin and \ifeof check first and only use \input if
> > the file is there and raises a normal \errormessage if not.
>
> And does breaks on-the-fly installation via hooking into mktextex.

That wasn't there in 1993 on an emtex installation:-) (or even my sunos box)

David