Re: [AUCTeX-diffs] GNU AUCTeX branch, master, updated. 9fdfe2c3d466d0a37b2d46b94052516e16d2c0c5

[David Kastrup]

Ikumi Keita <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> You know, it is not prohibited to actually test out such things.
>
>> address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ kpsewhich --progname=latex 
>> --expand-path "/home/dak/tex/india/:/tmp"
>> /home/dak/tex/india:/tmp
>> address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ kpsewhich --progname=latex 
>> --expand-path "/home/dak/tex/india/;/tmp"
>
>> address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ kpsewhich --version
>> kpathsea version 6.2.3
>> Copyright 2017 Karl Berry & Olaf Weber.
>> License LGPLv2.1+: GNU Lesser GPL version 2.1 or later 
>> <http://gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html>
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Oops, I'm so sorry!  I did test
> kpsewhich --progname latex --expand-path '$SYSTEXMF;$TEXMFLOCAL'
> and see that it output
> /usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-var:/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
> .  This observation led me to think that kpsewhich accepts semicolon as
> the delimiter.  Sigh.

Interesting:

$ kpsewhich --progname latex --expand-path '$SYSTEXMF;$TEXMFLOCAL'
/var/lib/texmf:/usr/local/share/texmf:/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist
$ kpsewhich --progname latex --expand-path '$SYSTEXMF'
/var/lib/texmf:/usr/local/share/texmf:/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist:/usr/share/texmf
$ kpsewhich --progname latex --expand-path '$TEXMFLOCAL'
/usr/local/share/texmf

I have no idea what this signifies, to be honest.  The ; being part of
the variable name?

-- 
David Kastrup