On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 18:06 +0100, Braun Gabor wrote:
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 3.0-23
> Severity: normal
>
> *** Please type your report below this line ***
>
> I start texdoctk. I select "Fundamentals/general references". Then I select
> the first line "User's guide" and click on "View". The following message
> appears: ERROR usrguide.dvi not found cancelling.
>
> There seems to be nothing special about User's guide, if I select any
> document in any category, I receive a "not found" error. (I have not tried
> them all only some of them randomly.)
>
> Other facts:
>
> 1) The documentations are present, e.g. usrguide.dvi is here:
>
> /usr/share/texmf-tetex/doc/latex/base/usrguide.dvi.gz
>
> I can view it with "texdoc usruide" (and also other documentation).
>
> 2) In texdoctk: clicking on settings, the paths in the upcoming window:
>
> Distribution documentation root path(s): /usr/share/texmf/doc
> Local documentation root path: /usr/local/share/texmf/doc
>
> I miss the following from the distribution paths:
>
> /usr/share/texmf-tetex/doc
> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc
>
> I do not understand why these are missing.
> /usr/share/texmf-tetex/texdoctk/texdocrc says
>
> # root of doc directory (from $TEXMFMAIN and $TEXMFDIST)
> TEXDOCPATH=doc
>
>
> kpsexpand reports
> $TEXMFMAIN to be /usr/share/texmf
> $TEXMFDIST to be /usr/share/texmf-{texlive,tetex}
Thanks for the detailed report. This problem is indeed caused by
$TEXMFDIST not being searched. You can test this by starting texdoctk as
env TEXMFDIST=/usr/share/texmf-tetex texdoctk
The problem are the following lines from texdoctk
$texmfdist=`kpsewhich --expand-path=${qq}\$TEXMFDIST${qq}`;
chomp $texmfdist;
$distdocpath=join('/',"$texmfdist",basename($texdocpath,""))
if (length $texmfdist);
which cannot deal with the actual output
$ kpsewhich --expand-path="\$TEXMFDIST"
/usr/share/texmf-texlive:/usr/share/texmf-tetex
However, it looks as if there are several places in texdoctk where it is
assumed that TEXMFDIST referes to a single directory only. Hence I can't
offer a patch yet.
> BTW, the man page of texdoctk refers to a system wide configuration file
> ($TEXMFMAIN)/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults
> but this does not exist. I have $TEXMFMAIN/texdoctk/texdocrc instead.
The source uses "texdocrc" and "texdocrc-win32.defaults". Looks like a
documentation bug to me.
> Also, the man page refers to both $HOMETEXMF and $TEXMFHOME. Is this
> intentional?
TEXMFHOME used to be called HOMETEXMF. Another documentation bug.
cheerio
ralf
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