Bug in luatex handling of hidden dirs in TEXMFVAR

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2025-11-10 at 19:04:53 +0000, Vincenzo Mantova wrote:

 > Hi all,
 > 
 > Wouldn't it make sense for LuaTeX, or kpathsea in general, to
 > convert the paths in the various TEXMF* variables to absolute paths
 > before actually using them?

The relative paths determined by kpathsea are appended to the
bin/<platform>/ directory specified in PATH.  Hence kpathsea does
already exactly what you suggest.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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