[tex-k] Interesting problems with EPS file searchng (with dvips)

[Akira Kakuto]

From: Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>
Subject: Re: [tex-k] Interesting problems with EPS file searchng (with dvips)

> > I have a look at kpathsea sources. It seems that
> > explicit relative names are treated similarly as absolute names.
> > Thus you must be in /path/to/dvi to include ./eps/foo.eps
> > irrespective of the value of TEXPICTS.
> 
> Hm... What about
>   $ mkdir -p a/b/c
>   $ touch a/b/c/d.tex
>   $ TEXINPUTS=a/b kpsewhich c/d
>   a/b/c/d.tex
> so relative paths just seem to work the right way in this case.

'Explicit relative' means ./something or ../something.
And I think the behavior of Kpathsea is rather natural.

> 
>   $ TEXINPUTS=a/b kpsewhich ./c/d
> does not work, but why not just omit "./"?

Sincerely,
Akira
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Akira Kakuto