Re: now I think this is a bug

[Thomas Esser]

> # kpsewhich -expand-var='$SELFAUTOLOC -- $SELFAUTODIR -- $SELFAUTOPARENT' 
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu --   /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux -- 
>/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc

Looks very broken. This sould be impossible. Look at the kpathsea code
(progname.c, I think). Must be a compiler bug.

> This glibc is the official update of RH to their 7.0 distro.  I have
> absolutely nothing on my system which is not official RH (except tetex).
...
> # gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
> gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)

And still: I think that your compiler is broken.

Thomas