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To: dan@tesla.psych.nyu.edu (Dan Karron)
Cc: tex-k@cs.umb.edu
Subject: Re: debugging search paths in kpathsea
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Dec 1994 23:40:43 EST."
<9412080440.AA03948@tesla.psych.nyu.edu>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 1994 10:42:27 -0500
From: Peter Whaite <peta@cim.mcgill.ca>
> Karron here;
> Anyone give any thought to some debugging vars in kpathsea ?
>
> Kause sometimes the only problem is that I tell tex / mf to
> look in the wrong places.
Here are some of the things I've done to track down these problems.
1. The utilities (dvips and xdvi) take -d debug flags which give lots of useful
kpathsea information.
2. If you use kpathsea-2.4 (web2c-6.1 has to be patched) then the evironment
variable TEXMFLOG to the name of a file to which some of this information
is written. This might be useful for tex/mf though it seems to just list
the files found.
3. On SGI's you can use the par(1) command (like trace) to see what system
calls are being made. I often resort to...
par -s -SS latex foo.tex
with egrep to pick out the ones of interest (xstat and open usually). Also
I think you can actually tell par which calls to pick out (but I'm lazy).
I can't recall if IRIX4.0.x has the par command. If not the sources to
trace compile fine.
Its really worth while applying those kpathsea-2.4 patches because you can set
up paths in the texmf.cfg file. Just keep editing till its right.