Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [AUCTeX-diffs] GNU AUCTeX branch, master, updated. 9fdfe2c3d466d0a37b2d46b94052516e16d2c0c5

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> "Ikumi Keita" <address@hidden> writes:
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>> commit 9fdfe2c3d466d0a37b2d46b94052516e16d2c0c5
>> Author: Ikumi Keita <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Thu Nov 30 00:32:49 2017 +0900
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>>     Re-implement auto-detect of path separator from kpsewhich output
>>     
>>     * tex.el (TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter): Accept t for Autodetect again
>>     and make it default on w32 platform.
>>     (TeX-tree-expand): Use heuristics as much as possible to determine the
>>     path separator, paying attention to the case that it cannot be
>>     determined.
>>
>
>> +               ;; It seems that kpsewhich accepts semicolon as
>> +               ;; path delimiter even on non-w32 platform and
>> +               ;; converts it to colon if necessary.
>> +               ;; Quote from texmf.cnf of TeXLive 2017:
>> +               ;; "In this file, either ; or : can be used to
>> +               ;; separate path components."
>> +               ,(mapconcat #'identity vars ";")))
>
> You know, it is not prohibited to actually test out such things.
>
> address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ kpsewhich --progname=latex
> --expand-path "/home/dak/tex/india/:/tmp"
> /home/dak/tex/india:/tmp
> address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ kpsewhich --progname=latex
> --expand-path "/home/dak/tex/india/;/tmp"
>

In other words: texmf.cnf has different rules than the kpsewhich command
line.

The previous code was the result of a lot of testing and discussion.
Replacing it without doing either is not a recipe for success.

-- 
David Kastrup