pdflatex does not work on win after todays update but does on linux

[George N. White III]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 at 05:54, Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at bitmuis.nl> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 09:06:27PM -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 at 17:24, Andreas Hirsch <
> > cursus.publicus at sacrumromanumimperium.org> wrote:
> >
> > I also tried mapping the network share:
> >
> > PS D:\TeX\Testing\sample2e>
> > '\\localhost\D$\TeX\texlive\2021\bin\win32\pdflatex.exe' sample2e
> > warning: kpathsea: //localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/bin/win32:
> Unrecognized
> > variable construct `$/'.
> > [... many more kpathsea warnings ]
> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021/W32TeX)
> > (preloaded format=pdflatex)
> >  restricted \write18 enabled.
> > [... many more kpathsea warnings ]
> > entering extended mode
> > (//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex
> > LaTeX2e <2021-06-01>
> > L3 programming layer <2021-06-01>
> > (//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> > Document Class: article 2021/02/12 v1.4n Standard LaTeX document class
> > (//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> >
> (//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-pdfte
> > x.def)
> > No file sample2e.aux.
> > [... warnings]
> > [2] [3] (./sample2e.aux) )
> > [... warnings]
> > {//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/enc
> > /dvips/cm-super/cm-super-ts1.enc}[...
> > warnings]<//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fo
> >
> nts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx12.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-
> >
> dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmex10.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021
> >
> /texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi10.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texli
> >
> ve/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi7.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX
> >
> /texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb><//localhost/
> >
> D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr12.pfb><//loca
> >
> lhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr17.pfb><
> >
> //localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr6.
> >
> pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/
> >
> cmr7.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfont
> >
> s/cm/cmr8.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/am
> >
> sfonts/cm/cmsy10.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/pu
> >
> blic/amsfonts/cm/cmsy7.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/fonts/ty
> >
> pe1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmti10.pfb><//localhost/D$/TeX/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/f
> > onts/type1/public/cm-super/sfrm1000.pfb>
> > Output written on sample2e.pdf (3 pages, 153682 bytes).
> > Transcript written on sample2e.log.
>
> So do I understand that if you access a local drive D: with share
> syntax '\\localhost\D$' that then pdflatex does not crash?
>
>
Correct -- no crash, but kpathsea doesn't handle the 'D$'.   Also, lualatex
works
using a UNC path.

-- 
George N. White III
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/attachments/20210613/2499a4f9/attachment.html>