Bug#594743: texlive-binaries: pdftex slow to generate sources when $HOME contains a trailing "/".
reassign 396835 libkpathsea5
reassign 594743 libkpathsea5
severity 594743 normal
forwarded 594743 Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>
merge 594743 396835
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On 29.08.10 Thomas Adam (thomas@xteddy.org) wrote:
> Package: texlive-binaries
> Version: 2009-6
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
> When $HOME contains a trailing "/", pdftex takes an absolute age to generate
> a PDF file from a .tex source file. It seems this problem has been reported
> once before, in 2008, in Ubuntu, as per the following report:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/+bug/192877
>
> This bug is still very present in today's version of TeX Live, so I am very
> dubious about the claim that it's fixed upstream. It's easy to reproduce --
> just compare the following:
>
> 1. HOME="$HOME/" time pdftex some_file.tex
> 2. HOME="/home/$USER" time pdftex some_file.tex
>
Thanks for report and analysis. However the problem is already
reported and (unfortunately not solved yet).
H.
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