[tex-live] behaviour of kpsewhich on case-insensitive mac system

[Zdenek Wagner]

The problem with case sensitivity is as follows:

A user on a case insensitive file system has files MAIN.TEX and

Zdeněk Wagner
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2017-09-19 0:56 GMT+02:00 Justin C. Walker <justin at me.com>:

>
> > On Sep 18, 2017, at 09:18 , jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a question,
> >
> > $ kpsewhich example-image-A.pdf
> >
> > $ kpsewhich example-image-a.pdf
> > /usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mwe/example-image-a.pdf
>
> I’;m using TeXLive 2017 (up to date) on  on macOS 10.11.6.
>
> I duplicated Phillip’s example (i.e., I got the same results he did).
>
> I also used your example, with the same results, so I don’t understand why
> case should affect the outcome.
>
> What versions of TeX and (I assume) macOS are you using?
>
> > But I am on a case-insensitive file system:
> >
> > $ touch foo
> >
> > $ mv foo Foo
> >
> > $ rm foo
> >
> > $ ls Foo
> > ls: Foo: No such file or directory
> >
> > I was wondering why an `\includegraphics{example-image-A}` failed
> > (which I got from some post on tex.sx) and I surmise from the above
> > that this has possibly to do with kpsewhich or at least with the way
> > pdftex finds files.
> >
> > I guess the rationale is that if kpsewhich were to be
> > case-insensitive on OSes with case insensitive file systems,
> > TeX documents would more easily behave differently on different
> > systems ?
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Jean-François
> >
> >
>
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