tl24 pretest: bug report

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi,

names of environment variables are case sensitive in UNIX systems, you
should search for TEX, not tex.

Zdeněk Wagner
https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/

čt 15. 2. 2024 v 21:24 odesílatel Ven. Pandita (Burma)
<ashinpan at gmail.com> napsal:
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> "env | \grep tex" gives:
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> MANPATH=/home/pan/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.39.6/man:/home/pan/share/man:/home/pan/Qt/Tools/CMake/man:/home/pan/texlive/2024/bin/x86_64-linux/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man
> PATH=/home/pan/perl5/perlbrew/bin:/home/pan/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.39.6/bin:/home/pan/Develop/densify:/home/pan/bin:/home/pan/calibre/bin:/home/pan/Qt/Tools/CMake/bin:/home/pan/Qt/Tools/Ninja/bin:/home/pan/Qt/6.6.1/gcc_64/bin:/home/pan/texlive/2024/bin/x86_64-linux:/home/pan/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
> OLDPWD=/home/pan/Dropbox/texmf-local
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> "cd /home/pan/texlive/texmf-local | ls -LRa > /home/pan/out" gives filenames without error; biblatex.sty is also included.
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> On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 at 03:42, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>>
>> 1) Maybe some environment variable setting is causing trouble.
>> Try running  env | \grep TEX  to see what you've got.
>>
>> 2) What mktexlsr does, essentially, is run
>>   cd /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
>>   \ls -LRa >/tmp/out
>> (followed by some sed commands to massage the output)
>> and see if there are any errors, and/or if the .sty files show up in
>> /tmp/out.
>>
>> You could do that by hand and see if there are any errors.  The behavior
>> you are describing is quite peculiar; evidently there is something
>> specific to your system causing the problem, but I can't imagine what it
>> might be. Sorry. --best, karl.
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> Ven. Pandita (Burma)
>
> Postgraduate Institute of Pali and Buddhist Studies,
> University of Kelaniya,
> Sri Lanka