nico wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006 00:11:47 +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Yes, that's strange. I just checked, and everything is golden on a linux
>> system (gentoo, but I gues the same is true for other linux distros). So
>> I really don't see why OS X should behave differently. Is there any
>> debugging info that I could provide? How 'bout the other OS X users (I
>> seem to recall there were quite a few of them): do you get the same
>> error?
>>
>
> Strictly speaking it's not OSX, but i've a FreeBSD distro, which is close,
> and it works fine.
>
> Are you sure you have the permission to write in any of these paths?
>
> BTW, i find dangerous to do (kpse.formatpath method):
>
> # locate writable path
> if ! formatpath.empty? then
> formatpath.split_path.each do |fp|
> fp.gsub!(/\\/,'/')
> # remove funny patterns
> fp.sub!(/^!!/,'')
> fp.sub!(/\/+$/,'')
> fp.sub!(/unsetengine/,if enginepath then engine
> else '' end)
> if ! fp.empty? && (fp != '.') then
> # strip (possible engine) and test for
> writeability
> fpp = fp.sub(/#{engine}\/*$/,'')
> if FileTest.directory?(fpp) &&
> FileTest.writable?(fpp) then
> # use this path
> formatpath = fp.dup
> break
> end
> end
> end
> end
> # needed !
> begin File.makedirs(formatpath) ; rescue ; end ;
>
> If none of the paths from formatpath is valid, we keep the whole concat
> path in this variable... that then is used to create a directory tree.
> Thomas, maybe that you have ugly directories created starting with an
> hidden directory named ".:". You should check that.
>
i can make the fallback '.' in that case, not that it helps much
if ! formatpath.empty? then
done = false
formatpath.split_path.each do |fp|
fp.gsub!(/\\/,'/')
# remove funny patterns
fp.sub!(/^!!/,'')
fp.sub!(/\/+$/,'')
fp.sub!(/unsetengine/,if enginepath then engine
else '' end)
if ! fp.empty? && (fp != '.') then
# strip (possible engine) and test for
writeability
fpp = fp.sub(/#{engine}\/*$/,'')
if FileTest.directory?(fpp) &&
FileTest.writable?(fpp) then
# use this path
formatpath, done = fp.dup, true
break
end
end
end
formatpath = '.' unless done
end
Hans
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