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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/bugs.texi b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/bugs.texi index cb0731512d4..4ec2d560a57 100644 --- a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/bugs.texi +++ b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/bugs.texi @@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ Before reporting a bug, please check below to be sure it isn't already known (@pxref{Common problems}). Bug reports should be sent via electronic mail to -@email{tex-k@@mail.tug.org}, or by postal mail to 135 Center Hill Road / -Plymouth, MA 02360 / USA. +@email{tex-k@@mail.tug.org}. The general principle is that a good bug report includes all the information necessary for reproduction. Therefore, to enable @@ -100,13 +99,6 @@ file (and any EPS or other files it uses)---@TeX{} source files are helpful, but the DVI file is necessary, because that's the actual program input. -@cindex shar@r{, recommended} -GNU @code{shar}, available from @url{ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu} is -a convenient way of packaging multiple (possibly binary) files for -electronic mail. If you feel your input files are too big to send by -email, you can ftp them to @url{ftp://ftp.tug.org/incoming} (that -directory is writable, but not readable). - @item @cindex context diff @cindex sending patches @@ -360,6 +352,15 @@ For example, after @code{setenv TEXMFLOG /tmp/log}, running Dvips on @noindent Only filenames that are absolute are recorded, to preserve some semblance of privacy. +In addition to this Kpathsea-specific logging, @command{pdftex} +provides an option @option{-recorder} to write the names of all files +accessed during a run to the file @file{@var{basefile}.fls}. + +Finally, most systems provide a general tool to output each system +call, thus including opening and closing files. It might be named +@command{strace}, @command{truss}, @command{struss}, or something +else. + @node Common problems @subsection Common problems |