[tex-live] Kpathsea in TL2007

Akira Kakuto kakuto at fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp
Tue Feb 20 03:17:11 CET 2007


> I suppose that "env KPATHSEA_DEBUG=4 pdflatex ..." will not work on
> Windows anyway, but you can probably write a small program/batch file
> ...

pdflatex --kpathsea-debug=4 ...

> But what we need is to write stderr to a file or pass it to a pipe
> instead of printing it on screen.

cmd.exe supports the redirection: 2>err.log, while command.com does
not support it. In this case, one can define an environment variable:
set KPATHSEA_DEBUG_OUTPUT=err.log  (defined for Windows only).

Best regards,
Akira


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