Bug#418788: texlive-base-bin: dvips fails with \includegraphics outside current directory

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Eric, hi all!

On Mit, 11 Apr 2007, Eric Cooper wrote:
> ("cat.eps" is from /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/rotating/
> if "/tmp/cat.eps" is replaced by just "cat.eps", it works OK.
> The dvips from tetex-bin handled pathnames just fine in this situation.)
> 
>     \documentclass{article}
>     \usepackage[dvips]{graphics}
>     \begin{document}
>     \includegraphics{/tmp/cat.eps}
>     \end{document}

I cannot reproduce this with TeX Live 2007. Someone else have a TeX Live
2005 lying around?

With TL2007 the file is found.

Best wishes

Norbert

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