[2501] in SIPB bug reports
decmips 7.3P: latex, tex misread TEXINPUTS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Fri Feb 21 17:01:43 1992
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 17:01:23 -0500
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
System name: hodge
Type and version: KN01 7.3P
Display type: PMAX-MFB
What were you trying to do?
run latex
What's wrong:
latex dosen't read TEXINPUTS correctly. (True for both the
Athena and SIPB versions of latex.) In particular, it will
look in the first directory in the colon-separated path
*only* if it is ``.'' For example,
If TEXINPUTS is
.:/foo:/bar
will look in `.', /foo, and /bar
/foo:.
will only look in `.'
/foo:/bar
will only look in /bar
What should have happened:
I shouldn't be forced to put .: at the beginning of
my TEXINPUTS environment variable if I don't want to.
Of course, I can always do something like
/dev/null:/usr/athena/lib/tex/macros:/usr/sipb/lib/tex/macros:.
and it'll work, but that's stupid.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
latex(1), tex(1)
