Re: Umathquad again - lots of mktexlsr errors

[luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 27-6-2011 8:42, Hans van der Meer wrote:
>>
>> Ok, thanks. I understand the mktexlsr stuff is nothing serious.
>
> it looks like mktexlsr has a bug
>
> - when run with "" on windows it tries to hash /
> - when run on linux with "" it loops
>
> any unknown path does this
>
> so, i think that maybe when there is an empty path given or in the texmf
> spec, that this problem surfaces
>
> Hans
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imo, a shift is missed
From line 73 of mktexlsr, look at
# ADD THIS
 below

# A copy of some stuff from mktex.opt, so we can run in the presence of
# terminally damaged ls-R files.
while test $# -gt 0; do
  if test "x$1" = x--help || test "x$1" = x-help; then
    echo "$usage"
    exit 0
  elif test "x$1" = x--version || test "x$1" = x-version; then
    echo "`basename $0` $version"
    kpsewhich --version
    exit 0
  elif test "x$1" = x--verbose || test "x$1" = x-verbose; then
    verbose=true
  elif test "x$1" = x--dry-run || test "x$1" = x-n; then
    dry_run=true
  elif test "x$1" = x--quiet || test "x$1" = x--silent \
       || test "x$1" = x-quiet || test "x$1" = x-silent ; then
    verbose=false
  elif test "x$1" = x--; then
    :
  elif echo "x$1" | grep '^x-' >/dev/null; then
    echo "$progname: unknown option \`$1', try --help if you need it." >&2
    exit 1
  else
    if test ! -d "$1"; then
      echo "$progname: $1: not a directory, skipping." >&2
      shift     ## ADD THIS, otherwise a loop
      continue
    fi
    # By saving the argument in a file, we can later get it back while
    # supporting spaces in the name.  This still doesn't support
    # newlines in the directory names, but nobody ever complains about
    # that, and it seems much too much trouble to use \0 terminators.
    (umask 077
    if echo "$1" >>"$treefile"; then :; else
      echo "$progname: $treefile: could not append to arg file, goodbye." >&2
      exit 1
    fi
    )
  fi
  shift
done


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luigi
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