On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 27-6-2011 8:42, Hans van der Meer wrote:
>>
>> Ok, thanks. I understand the mktexlsr stuff is nothing serious.
>
> it looks like mktexlsr has a bug
>
> - when run with "" on windows it tries to hash /
> - when run on linux with "" it loops
>
> any unknown path does this
>
> so, i think that maybe when there is an empty path given or in the texmf
> spec, that this problem surfaces
>
> Hans
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imo, a shift is missed
From line 73 of mktexlsr, look at
# ADD THIS
below
# A copy of some stuff from mktex.opt, so we can run in the presence of
# terminally damaged ls-R files.
while test $# -gt 0; do
if test "x$1" = x--help || test "x$1" = x-help; then
echo "$usage"
exit 0
elif test "x$1" = x--version || test "x$1" = x-version; then
echo "`basename $0` $version"
kpsewhich --version
exit 0
elif test "x$1" = x--verbose || test "x$1" = x-verbose; then
verbose=true
elif test "x$1" = x--dry-run || test "x$1" = x-n; then
dry_run=true
elif test "x$1" = x--quiet || test "x$1" = x--silent \
|| test "x$1" = x-quiet || test "x$1" = x-silent ; then
verbose=false
elif test "x$1" = x--; then
:
elif echo "x$1" | grep '^x-' >/dev/null; then
echo "$progname: unknown option \`$1', try --help if you need it." >&2
exit 1
else
if test ! -d "$1"; then
echo "$progname: $1: not a directory, skipping." >&2
shift ## ADD THIS, otherwise a loop
continue
fi
# By saving the argument in a file, we can later get it back while
# supporting spaces in the name. This still doesn't support
# newlines in the directory names, but nobody ever complains about
# that, and it seems much too much trouble to use \0 terminators.
(umask 077
if echo "$1" >>"$treefile"; then :; else
echo "$progname: $treefile: could not append to arg file, goodbye." >&2
exit 1
fi
)
fi
shift
done
--
luigi
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