Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > echo $HOME >> >> >> >> /home/hrw/ >> > >> > That's not: $HOME should not have a trailing slash. >> >> Should this be documented somewhere more clearly? Or can we just assume >> a sane setting, at least for the TeX packages? > > This we should either do, or suggest that libkpathsea removes any > trailing slashes from $HOME.
Removing is probably the best solution. Anybody who actually wants /home/foo//texmf can write TEXMFHOME = $HOME//texmf Olaf Weber is responsible for kpathsea, isn't he? > This symlink is an absolute reference to the source tree on the > builder's machine. How could that possibly be useful on anyone else's > random machine? If it were a symlink to /usr/src/linux* that would be > a different story. Note that the binary package deletes the symlink > on installation (search for "source" in > /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image*.postinst); it would be better IMHO if > it were deleted at the end of the build. I agree. However, before submitting a bugreport I'd like to know whether this problem still exists. Does anyone have a linux source and kernel-package installed in a sid environment? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
