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Re: Bug#356476: texinfo - fails to install



Hi Frank, hi all!

On Mon, 13 Mär 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> > This seems to be a problem that tetex is not already configured.
> > Although I thought that this should NOT happen, namely that only with
> > tex-common installed a call to kpsewhich should succeed. But it seems
> > that it doesn't. Do you have an idea why?
> 
> Just to be sure - that's not the same libkpathsea-is-not-configured-yet
> problem we've had before?

Hmm, I thought that the code
        if kpsewhich --version > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then 
            build_format_if_format_exists --byfmt texinfo
            build_format_if_format_exists --byfmt cyrtexinfo
        fi
does check for this, that was the reason why it was included.

So kpsewhich --version succeeds, but kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR
does not. This would be really strange.

Best wishes

Norbert

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