<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Hi,<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't know kpse treats double slashes differently than unix shells do. iirc, unix shells don't care if there is more than one consecutive slash, they are disregarded.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Read a bit about kpathsea, never needed it before, and found out that indeed "two or more consecutive slashes in a path element following a directory d [are] replaced by all subdirectories of d".<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Good to know.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">But confusing nonetheless, as I didn't know about this "feature" ;) of kpathsea and so it startled me.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe your suggestion of sanitizing the input beforehand is a good choice--assuming that the double slashes actually the root cause of my problem.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Have a nice weekend,<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div id="sig109472192"><div class="signature"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">Philipp</span><br></div><div class="signature"><div><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;"></span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">E: latex@philipptempel.me</span><br></div></div></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div>On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, at 12:47 PM, Norbert Preining wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Hi Philipp,<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> On that note though, what now really confuses me: how can a double slash in `TEXMFSYSCONFIG and TEXMFSYSVAR cause this behavior? Particularly cause an error that emerges only when installing the three smallest schemes (infraonly, minimal, basic) but with scheme-small and higher there is no more issues?`<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">double slashes have a special meaning in kpse, that they search<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">recursively all directories below the given one.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">That has been like this since the dawn of humans ;-)<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Still, there are a few things I am contemplating:<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">- first I need to check why the double slash disturbed the whole system<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">- second, I think it would be nice if we automatically clean input<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"> like this and remove double slashes, nobody in their right mind will<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"> want that, and if, they should fix it afterwards.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">@Karl, what do you think?<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">On Fri, 02 Jul 2021, Mojca Miklavec wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> I tend to believe that double slashes have some special meaning to<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> kpathsea, but I don't know (and didn't bother investigating) the<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">> details.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Mojca ... is this you ... I can't believe? :-DDD<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Best<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Norbert<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">--<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">PREINING Norbert <a href="https://www.preining.info">https://www.preining.info</a><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Fujitsu Research + IFMGA Guide + TU Wien + TeX Live + Debian Dev<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div></body></html>