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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2017-05-06 23:06:56 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2017-05-06 23:06:56 +0000 |
commit | 8e3c883d6f9fcb929960fd6c3a168363f5c48f3e (patch) | |
tree | 615e3bde7a62c931b1f029cd8247b0619b991dcb /Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm | |
parent | 0381fcffb4dd9ececaf0deccb031bca6fe2f6cf9 (diff) |
doc, copyright 2017
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@44232 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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-rw-r--r-- | Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm b/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm index 520fb1f88bb..d1880caa9fa 100644 --- a/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm +++ b/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # $Id$ # TeXLive::TLUtils.pm - the inevitable utilities for TeX Live. -# Copyright 2007-2016 Norbert Preining, Reinhard Kotucha +# Copyright 2007-2017 Norbert Preining, Reinhard Kotucha # This file is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 # or any later version. @@ -4066,7 +4066,12 @@ sub setup_sys_user_mode { =item C<prepend_own_path()> -Prepends the location of the TeX Live binaries to the PATH environment variable. +Prepend the location of the TeX Live binaries to the PATH environment +variable. This is used by (e.g.) C<fmtutil>. The location is found by +calling C<Cwd::abs_path> on C<which('kpsewhich')>. We use kpsewhich +because it is known to be a true binary executable; C<$0> could be a +symlink into (say) C<texmf-dist/scripts/>, which is not a useful +directory for PATH. =cut |