[Omake] Re: LaTeX environment variables [ping Geoffrey]

Geoffrey Alan Washburn geoffw at cis.upenn.edu
Fri Nov 10 12:26:18 PST 2006


Aleksey Nogin wrote:
> About a year ago we had a discussion (brought up by Geoffrey Washburn) 
> on how to improve OMake's handling of the LaTeX environment variables. 
> The problem was that OMake sets TEXINPUTS and BIBINPUTS, but does not 
> attempt to handle other similar environment variables, such as BSTINPUTS.
> 
> I have committed a patch to LaTeX.om (on 0.9.8.x branch) that addresses 
> this, although in a more simple way than what Geoffrey suggested (commit 
> message attached below).
> 
> Geoffrey, does this seem like a reasonable way to go?

	This seems like a reasonable solution for the present, as last I 
checked there was no way to query what environment variables were 
examined by kpathsea.



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