Bug#594743: texlive-binaries: pdftex slow to generate sources when $HOME contains a trailing "/".

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org> wrote:

> Of course.  If we did this though, we would still have to find a way of
> ensuring that a trailing "/" in $HOME is still considered A Good Thing (tm)
> if that's what the user really meant.  The only way I can see this happening
> is through the use of some specific environment variable, as in:
>
> export ALWAYS_PERFORM_HOME_TEXMF_EXPANSION=1

Hm.  There is always the option to put the double slash into texmf.cnf
or TEXINPUTS, like this:

TEXMFHOME = $HOME//texmf

Thus, even if HOME=/home/frank/ gets expanded to /home/frank, there is
still a double slash.  I would prefer that over a special variable.

> It's OK.  I think I can find the sources to this and start work on it.  I
> will let you know if I get stuck though.

texlive-bin, texk/kpathsea.

Regards, Frank
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Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
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