> In other words: does SELFAUTO... not work when I have stuff like ../.. > in my PATH? Yes, that's broken. A shorter example: $ export PATH=/software/oss/Text/teTeX-1.0/share/texmf/../../bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:$PATH $ kpsewhich -expand-var=\$SELFAUTOLOC /software/oss/Text/teTeX-1.0/share/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu That "share" should not be there... Thomas