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Dear latex2html developers,
As I know _nothing_ about Perl, nor about latex2html I am a bit reluctant to
make strong statements. However:
Is it me, or the handling of the environment variable TEXINPUTS completely
broken in latex2html? If this is true, this problem seem to exist for more
than a couple of years...
The argument which represents the TEXINPUTS variable which is passed to
texexpand is unrelated to what I have in my environment, just before invoking
latex2html (I added some print statements to check this).
It seems that the internal variable TEXINPUTS has been confused with the
environment variable $ENV{'TEXINPUTS'} in the final assignment in the
subroutine absolutize_path. What happens at present is that the environment
variable with this name is modified, while the _internal_ variable is later
passed to texexpand (using its -texinputs option).
The one-liner patch below (against the latex2html-2002-2 drop, but probably it
applies to older versions as well) fixes the problem by rather assigning the
absolutized path list to the $TEXINPUTS variable.
By the way: Latex2Html rocks, thanks! Our (quite complex) generated latexfiles
are converted almost perfectly. If only somebody could implement the
listings.sty ;-)
Kind Regards,
Jan van Dijk
eldhcp16:/usr/local/src/latex2html-2002-2 # diff -u latex2html.orig latex2html
--- latex2html.orig Sat Sep 28 19:08:13 2002
+++ latex2html Sat Sep 28 19:09:01 2002
@@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@
};
if ($ROOTED) {$TEXINPUTS .= "$envkey$FIXEDDIR"}
$TEXINPUTS = &absolutize_path($TEXINPUTS);
- $ENV{'TEXINPUTS'} = join($envkey,".",@_,$TEXINPUTS,$ENV{'TEXINPUTS'});
+ $TEXINPUTS = join($envkey,".",@_,$TEXINPUTS,$ENV{'TEXINPUTS'});
}
# provided by Fred Drake
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