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Bug#709986: texlive-base: "Use of uninitialized value"



On 29.05.13 Norbert Preining (preining@logic.at) wrote:

Hi,

> The patch is quite simple:
> diff --git a/texlive-base/debian/tl-paper b/texlive-base/debian/tl-paper
> index e8f3ec9..7fc5223 100644
> --- a/texlive-base/debian/tl-paper
> +++ b/texlive-base/debian/tl-paper
> @@ -74,6 +74,14 @@ sub main {
>        usage();
>        exit 1;
>      }
> +    # set TEXMFVAR and TEXMFSYSVAR to something completely absurd
> +    # so that we always find either the system provided config file
> +    # as distributed in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist, or, if the
> +    # admin decided to override that, a copy in TEXMFSYSCONFIG
> +    # but *not* the one we have created at some point in history
> +    # in TEXMF(SYS)VAR
> +    $ENV{"TEXMFVAR"} = "/does/hopefully/not/exists/on/any/system";
> +    $ENV{"TEXMFSYSVAR"} = "/does/hopefully/not/exists/on/any/system";
>      if ($prg =~ m/^all$/i) {
>        if ($newpaper !~ /^(a4|letter)$/) {
>          # we cannot deal with that for now, only a4|letter supported for
> 
I'm pretty sure you'll get another bug for this code. As the path
above does not corespond to the FHS is should work anyway. ;-)

H.
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