Re: Installing luatex causes bugs in texdoc
On Do, 31 Jul 2008, Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard wrote:
> Yes, I can do that. The only old env var I am aware of are those of texdoc
> from tl2007 and Frank's texlua version. If there were other env vars before,
Only those env vars from the shell version (tl2007) are important.
> Yes, in Debian. I noticed while using the current Debian lenny version of
> texdoc (for testing purposes) with a new luatex from TL'08 in my PATH: it
> just breaks. Since I don't know how frequently you update luatex in Debian,
> I preferred warning you.
Thanks, I hope to remember it ... ;-)
> Yes, I almost forgot. This is indeed the right way (unless you want to
> achieve *very* special effects). Moreover, not using arg[-1] as the first
> argument breaks also on GNU platforms with newer versions of kpse (while it
> used to break only on non-GNU platforms before...)
But we don't do that on texconf.tlu, and it works ... so I am bit
surprised?!?!
Best wishes
Norbert
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