On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 06:10:20AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Frank, > > >When parsing texmf.cnf (or its built-in paths, if $HOME expansion might > >take place there?), it should treat the variable $HOME special and > >remove the trailing slash > > Yes. > > >The change would have to be somewhere in expand.c - but I have to get up > >early tomorrow and don't have time to dig into this. > > Probably in variable.c, but why not discuss that with Karl ... it would > be much better to ask his opinion first before we start to digress > in Debian to something which will not be implemented upstream. I dont > want different behaviour.
I don't mind taking a look (I am a programmer) if it's likely to be a simple change (i.e., I wouldn't need to have a bunch of requisite knowledge about TexLive and its infrastructure). Point me in the right direction if it's going to save you guys some time. Also, is there a reason why such a fix wouldn't ever make it upstream? Have they already seen this and somehow dismissed it due to another reason? Did I not also read in the merged bug which 594743 got put into, that tilde expansion worked just fine in texmf.cnf, whereas $HOME still suffered? Is tilde expansion in place of $HOME outright not an acceptable solution then? (I might need to go away and qualify this later on, in case I end up being accused of talking nonsense. :P) -- Thomas Adam -- "It was the cruelest game I've ever played and it's played inside my head." -- "Hush The Warmth", Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
