Bug#215588: xdvi does not honor XAPPLRESDIR

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Stephen Gildea <gildea@stop.mail-abuse.org>
Subject: Bug#215588: xdvi does not honor XAPPLRESDIR
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:22:51 -0400

> The xdvi program fails to honor my XAPPLRESDIR envvar.  This is because
> the wrapper script /usr/bin/xdvi co-opts it for its own use.  I want my
> XAPPLRESDIR to work.  XAPPLRESDIR is for user customizations, and
> applications should not be setting it themselves.
> 
> Looking at the script, I see that it claims that clobbering XAPPLRESDIR
> provides X11R3 compatibility.  A laudable goal, except that it also
> breaks R4, R5, and R6.  The teTeX author has a choice to make whether it
> is more important to support R3 or newer X11 releases.  However, Debian
> includes X11R6, so Debian xdvi should support R6.  The included patch
> fixes this compatibility.

I don't know X system at all so this might be stupid question
but XFILESEARCHPATH instead of XAPPLRESDIR doesn't work for you ?

Regards,		    2003-10-14(Tue)

-- 
 Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima