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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2019-03-26 14:41:17 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/kpathsea/kpathsea.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/kpathsea/kpathsea.html index 64fca6da621..cac5c2a91f2 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/kpathsea/kpathsea.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/kpathsea/kpathsea.html @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ Next: <a href="#Introduction" accesskey="n" rel="next">Introduction</a>, Up: <a <p>This manual documents the Kpathsea library for path searching. It corresponds to version 6.3.1, released in -February 2019. +March 2019. </p> <table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="#Introduction" accesskey="1">Introduction</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Overview and history. @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ Next: <a href="#unixtex_002eftp" accesskey="n" rel="next">unixtex.ftp</a>, Previ <span id="index-fundamental-purpose-of-Kpathsea"></span> <p>This manual corresponds to version 6.3.1 of the Kpathsea -library, released in February 2019. +library, released in March 2019. </p> <p>The library’s fundamental purpose is to return a filename from a list of directories specified by the user, similar to what shells do when @@ -1352,6 +1352,7 @@ searches the disk in the big system directory, the casefolding is not done, and a search for ‘<samp>stix-regular.otf</samp>’ will fail (on case-sensitive systems), as it always has. </p> +<span id="index-_0021_0021-and-casefolding"></span> <p>The caveat about not searching the disk amounts to saying that casefolding does not happen in the trees specified with ‘<samp>!!</samp>’ (see <a href="#ls_002dR">ls-R</a>), that is, where only database (<samp>ls-R</samp>) searching @@ -1447,14 +1448,19 @@ Next: <a href="#Filename-aliases" accesskey="n" rel="next">Filename aliases</a>, <span id="ls_002dR-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">5.5.1 <samp>ls-R</samp></h4> <span id="index-ls_002dR-database-file"></span> -<span id="index-TEXMFDBS"></span> <p>As mentioned above, you must name the main filename database <samp>ls-R</samp>. You can put one at the root of each TeX installation -hierarchy you wish to search (<code>$TEXMF</code> by default); most sites have -only one hierarchy. Kpathsea looks for <samp>ls-R</samp> files along the -<code>TEXMFDBS</code> path, so that should presumably match the list of -hierarchies. +hierarchy you wish to search (<code>$TEXMF</code> by default, which expands +to a braced list of several hierarchies in TeX Live). +</p> +<span id="index-TEXMFDBS"></span> +<span id="index-_0021_0021-in-TEXMFDBS"></span> +<p>Kpathsea looks for <samp>ls-R</samp> files along the <code>TEXMFDBS</code> +path. It is best for this to contain all and only those hierarchies +from <code>$TEXMF</code> which are specified with <code>!!</code>—and also to +specify them with <code>!!</code> in <code>TEXMFDBS</code>. (See the end of this +section for more on <code>!!</code>.) </p> <p>The recommended way to create and maintain ‘<samp>ls-R</samp>’ is to run the <code>mktexlsr</code> script, which is installed in ‘<samp>$(bindir)</samp>’ @@ -1478,10 +1484,12 @@ Also presuming your <code>ls</code> hasn’t been aliased in a system file generating <samp>ls-R</samp>. For the precise definition of the file format, see <a href="#Database-format">Database format</a>. </p> -<p>Regardless of whether you use the supplied script or your own, you will -almost certainly want to invoke it via <code>cron</code>, so when you make -changes in the installed files (say if you install a new LaTeX -package), <samp>ls-R</samp> will be automatically updated. +<p>Regardless of whether you use the supplied script or your own, you +will almost certainly want to invoke it via <code>cron</code>, so when you +make changes in the installed files (say if you install a new LaTeX +package), <samp>ls-R</samp> will be automatically updated. However, for +those using TeX Live or system distributions, the package managers +should run <code>mktexlsr</code> as needed. </p> <span id="index-_002dA-option-to-ls"></span> <span id="index-dot-files"></span> @@ -1515,16 +1523,29 @@ ignores everything under such directories. </p> <span id="index-_0021_0021-in-path-specifications"></span> <span id="index-disk-searching_002c-avoiding"></span> -<p>Because the database may be out-of-date for a particular run, if a file -is not found in the database, by default Kpathsea goes ahead and -searches the disk. If a particular path element begins with ‘<samp>!!</samp>’, -however, <em>only</em> the database will be searched for that element, -never the disk. If the database does not exist, nothing will be -searched. Because this can surprise users (“I see the font -<samp>foo.tfm</samp> when I do an <code>ls</code>; why can’t Dvips find it?”), it -is not in any of the default search paths. +<p>If a particular path element begins with ‘<samp>!!</samp>’, <em>only</em> the +database will be searched for that element, never the disk; and if the +database does not exist, nothing at all will be searched. In TeX +Live, most of the trees are specified with ‘<samp>!!</samp>’. +</p> +<p>For path elements that do not begin with ‘<samp>!!</samp>’, if the database +exists, it will be used, and the disk will not be searched. However, +in this case, if the database does not exist, the disk will be +searched. In TeX Live, the most notable case of this is the +<code>TEXMFHOME</code> tree, to allow users to add and remove files from +their own tree without having to worry about <code>ls-R</code>. +</p> +<p>(Aside: there are uncommon cases where a ‘<samp>!!</samp>’ tree will be +searched on disk even if the <code>ls-R</code> file exists; they are too +obscure to try to explain here. See <samp>pathsearch.c</samp> in the source +if you need to know.) +</p> +<p>To sum up: do not create an <code>ls-R</code> file unless you also take care +to keep it up to date. Otherwise newly-installed files will not be +found. </p> + <hr> <span id="Filename-aliases"></span><div class="header"> <p> @@ -4419,7 +4440,9 @@ Previous: <a href="#Reporting-bugs" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Reporting bugs</a>, <tr><td></td><th align="left">Index Entry</th><td> </td><th align="left"> Section</th></tr> <tr><td colspan="4"> <hr></td></tr> <tr><th id="Index_cp_symbol-1">!</th><td></td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td valign="top"><a href="#index-_0021_0021-and-casefolding"><code>!! <span class="roman">and casefolding</span></code></a>:</td><td> </td><td valign="top"><a href="#Casefolding-examples">Casefolding examples</a></td></tr> <tr><td></td><td valign="top"><a href="#index-_0021_0021-in-path-specifications"><code>!! <span class="roman">in path specifications</span></code></a>:</td><td> </td><td valign="top"><a href="#ls_002dR">ls-R</a></td></tr> +<tr><td></td><td valign="top"><a href="#index-_0021_0021-in-TEXMFDBS"><code>!! <span class="roman">in <code>TEXMFDBS</code></span></code></a>:</td><td> </td><td valign="top"><a href="#ls_002dR">ls-R</a></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="4"> <hr></td></tr> <tr><th id="Index_cp_symbol-2">$</th><td></td><td></td></tr> <tr><td></td><td valign="top"><a href="#index-_0024-expansion"><code>$ <span class="roman">expansion</span></code></a>:</td><td> </td><td valign="top"><a href="#Variable-expansion">Variable expansion</a></td></tr> diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/kpathsea/kpathsea.pdf b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/kpathsea/kpathsea.pdf Binary files differindex 7e52b1d972b..cd2acf69f1b 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/kpathsea/kpathsea.pdf +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/kpathsea/kpathsea.pdf |