Bug#176526: tetex-bin: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mktexnam does not set PATH correctly

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Dear Walter,

over a year ago you reported bug
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=176526 to the Debian
Bugtracking system. One other maintainer, Atsuhito, had doubts that your
analysis was correct. You advised:

,----
| my suggesition is
| that you temporarily create a fake access command in your PATH before the
| proper one at /usr/bin/access and see if
| mktexnam invokes this fake commmand prior to invoking /usr/bin/access which
| it's suppose to....
`----

I tried to do this, but I cannot reproduce the bug. Could it be that it
depends on which fonts are used? It would be great if you could provide
a small example latex document that shows the error. This is what I did:

frank@alhambra:~/latex/test/debian-tetex$ cat `which access`
#!/bin/sh

echo "nix da"
exit 1
frank@alhambra:~/latex/test/debian-tetex$ dvips 236967-marvosym.dvi 
This is dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2004.03.11:1731' -> 236967-marvosym.ps
<texc.pro><f7b6d320.enc><bbad153f.enc><texps.pro>. <cmsy10.pfb><cmr10.pfb>[1] 
frank@alhambra:~/latex/test/debian-tetex$ 

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie