[tex-live] Xindy searchpath

Akira Kakuto kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp
Fri Jun 18 16:16:36 CEST 2010


Hi,

> >> This seems to be a bug in xindy.pl script.  Not much you can do about
> >> unless you have skills to write a patch for this.  I CCed the relevant
> >> people.
> >
> > That's strange; I will compare the TL 2010 code with TL 2009 if I
> > forgot some of Vladimir's Windows patches.
> 
> Hi Joachim,
> 
> in xindy.in from TL2009, there was:
>    $searchpath = quotify(join($path_sep, ".", $modules_dir,
>      "$modules_dir/base"));
> followed by
>    (progn
>      (searchpath $searchpath)
>      ......
> whereas in TL2010 there is:
>    (progn
>      (searchpath ".:$modules_dir:$modules_dir/base")

Here xindy release 2.4 on win32 is working with the patch

--- idxstyle.lsp.orig	Tue Dec 01 20:07:20 2009
+++ idxstyle.lsp	Fri Jun 18 23:09:13 2010
@@ -779,6 +779,7 @@
              (return (push :default paths)))
            (setq pos (position #+UNIX #\:
                                #+OS/2 #\;
+                               #+WIN32 #\;
                                str))
            (if pos
                (progn

and with a little rewriting of xetex.pl.

Thanks,
Akira



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