if the binaries directory is a symlink, clisp may get confused because of relative paths used to get to the texmf tree, so we resolve the path using Cwd::realpath()

bug found by Richard Koch, where MacTeX uses layout where /usr/texbin is a symlink to e.g. /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin


git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@9901 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Build/source/utils/xindy/user-commands/xindy.in b/Build/source/utils/xindy/user-commands/xindy.in
index d1a5e2eb3ba..4d6b1f02f20 100644
--- a/Build/source/utils/xindy/user-commands/xindy.in
+++ b/Build/source/utils/xindy/user-commands/xindy.in
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ BEGIN {
 # Determine environment. Where is our library directory, and our modules?
 
 use File::Basename;
+use Cwd;
 our ($cmd_dir, $cmd, $xindy_run, $lib_dir, $modules_dir, $path_sep);
 BEGIN {
     $cmd_dir = dirname($0);
@@ -337,6 +338,9 @@ BEGIN {
     } else {
 	die "$cmd: Cannot locate xindy modules directory";
     }
+    # if $cmd_dir or $lib_dir is a symlink, clisp may get confused
+    # because of relative paths above, so we resolve the path
+    $modules_dir = Cwd::realpath($modules_dir);
 }