Bug#389790: shell variables do not get expanded in tex files
Package: libkpathsea4
Version: 3.0-18
Severity: normal
ccole@debian:~$ echo $TDIR
/home/ccole/tex
ccole@debian:~$ ls
test.tex tex/
ccole@debian:~$ cat test.tex
\input{$TDIR/foo.tex}
ccole@debian:~$ latex test.tex
[output]...
! LaTeX Error: File `$TDIR/foo.tex' not found.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-3-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (c
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