Re: texdoc doesn't find documentation
Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
> There are many symlinks on the way to the file. Maybe texdoc is confused.
>
> % ls -l /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf.gz
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 8. Mär 14:05 \
> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf.gz -> \
> ../../../texlive-latex-base/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf.gz
>
> But
>
> % ls -l /usr/share/texmf-texlive/texlive-latex-base/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf.gz
> ls: cannot access \
> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/texlive-latex-base/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf.gz: \
> No such file or directory
Yes, this is because there is also a directory symlink involved:
$ lsd /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2007-02-11 14:50 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc -> ../doc/texlive-doc
So that
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc/latex/amslatex/../../../texlive-latex-base/latex/amslatex/amsldoc.pdf.gz
becomes
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/amslatex/../../../texlive-latex-base/latex/amslatex/amsldoc.pdf.gz
which "expands" to
/usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-base/latex/amslatex/amsldoc.pdf.gz
which exists. Is this still the same in TL 2007 (I currently don't have
it installed)?
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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