[Omake] LaTeX bug with BIBINPUTS.

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 05.07.2006 08:28, Geoffrey Alan Washburn wrote:

> I just noticed that if I do the following:
> 
> TEXINPUTS[]=
>         $(dir .)
>         $(dir ./support)
>         $(TEXINPUTS)
> 
> 
> BIBINPUTS[]=
>         $(dir .)
>     $(dir ./bib)
> 
> When running LaTeX OMake will set TEXINPUTS and BIBINPUTS to be the same 
> as TEXINPUTS, throwing away my BIBINPUTS definition.

Well, right, didn't we already discuss this about a year ago? Somehow we 
never managed to resolve it - the general agreement seems to be that we 
need some good general way of associating OMake variables with 
environment variables. For TEXINPUTS vs BIBINPUTS specifically - I do 
not know if we necessarily want to follow the TeX's model of having a 
huge number of different variables - I'd rather just have TEXINPUTS be 
responsible for everything. It is true that naming it TEXINPUTS could 
have been a bad idea as it creates an expectation that the other 
"standard" names would work as well, but I am not sure if it would be 
worth it to rename it now.

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