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Bug#2037: bibtex not searching $TEXINPUTS



Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca's mail:
> 
> Bibtex has nothing to do with TEXINPUTS. As you can see here from the file
> /usr/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, bibtex is supposed to listen to its own
> variables:
[...]

Then the kpathsea doku is wrong and the bug should be reassigned to
kpathsea (I think it should be reassigned to kpathsea anyhow). From
/usr/info/kpathsea.info.gz:

    TeX environment variables
    =========================

      Kpathsea defines a sequence of environment variables to search for
    each file type it supports.  This makes it easy for different programs
    to check the same environment variables, in the same order.

      The following table lists the environment variables searched for each
    file type in the order they are searched (and a brief description of the
    file type).  That is, only if the first variable is unset is the second
    variable checked, and so on.  If none are set, various other things are
    checked; *note Path sources::..
[...]
    `.bst'
	 (BibTeX style file) `BSTINPUTS', `TEXINPUTS'


Regards
	Herbert.



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