Re: Re: TeX run : 8

[Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>]

Hi Patrick,



Patrick Gundlach <patrick@gundla.ch> wrote:

>  Hello again,
>
>  > I have tried your small file (the one you have sent me) an a vanilla
>  > tetex 3.0 and an older texlive (I had to dig out my iBook -- anybody
>  > wants to buy a used iBook?) and both were two runs.
>
>  Ah, not so fast, Patrick. I can reproduce your problem:
>
>  $ ls -lR
>  .:
>  total 4
>  drwxr-xr-x    4 pg       pg            136 Mar  2 20:27 PARTS
>  -rw-r--r--    1 pg       pg            117 Mar  2 20:28 TEST.tex
>
>  ./PARTS:
>  total 8
>  -rw-r--r--    1 pg       pg             40 Mar  2 20:27 ONE.tex
>  -rw-r--r--    1 pg       pg             40 Mar  2 20:27 TWO.tex
>
>  (so setup is TEST.tex in all capitals and ONE.tex and TWO.tex in
>  subdir, tetex 3.0). Now I run
>
>  texexec --pdf test.tex
>
>  (lowercase test.tex !)
>
>  and I get:
>
>  [...]
>
>   utility file analysis : another run needed
>                 TeX run : 8
>
>
>  [...]
>
>
>  Note that the standard OS X filesystem is case preserving, but not
>  case sensitive when accessing a file. So accessing test.tex would be
>  happy with a file called TEST.tex. It is possible to create a pure
>  case sensitive HFS+ filesystem, but it isn't necessary to reproduce
>  the problem. (It would probably avoid it, though).
>
>
>  Patrick



So I made a new setup:
new files/folders and every names lowercase (folders, files, references).

The first time I executed
texexec --pdf test.tex
it looked good: 2 runs!
Then I executed
texexec --pdf test.tex
once more and now it was 8 runs again!

Does this make sense?

Steffen