Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:21:33 +0200, Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> wrote: > > > > Hi Eric, > > > > Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > > > | /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Processing /home/ucecesf/.../file.tex ... > > > | egrep: Invalid range end > > > | /usr/bin/texi2dvi: cannot read .//home/ucecesf/.../file.tex, skipping. > > > > Something somewhere tries to make a local path from an absolute one by > > prepending "./", which fails (predictably). Is the input readable at > > the original path? Not sure the error message from egrep has to do with > > it or not, but it must be in any case one of the processes started by > > texi2dvi (does not show up on my system, I only have calls to grep when > > I trace it, but one of the sub-processes might still use it). I think > > texi2dvi also invokes shell scripts, so any funny configuration in the > > environment, especially where path points to, could throw it off. > > As far as I know, there is nothing out of the ordinary with my paths > etc (please note that the /.../ above was an edit on my part to hide a > rather long path). Any hints as to what I can do to explore this > would be most helpful. How can I get a trace on what texi2dvi is > doing? (sh -v /usr/bin/texi2dvi?) >
There is an explicit egrep on line 1563 or thereabouts (my version says # texi2dvi --- produce DVI (or PDF) files from Texinfo (or (La)TeX) sources. # $Id: texi2dvi,v 1.104 2007/09/10 00:36:30 karl Exp $ at the top of the file): # If the COMMAND_LINE_FILENAME is not absolute (e.g., --debug.tex), # prepend `./' in order to avoid that the tools take it as an option. echo "$command_line_filename" | $EGREP '^(/|[A-z]:/)' >&6 \ || command_line_filename="./$command_line_filename" The regular expression seems a bit weird (upper case A to lower case z?), but I can't see off the top of my head how it gets tripped up. For tracing, try sh -x texi2dvi .... Nick _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
