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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 09:54:46 -0500
From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu>
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To: janl@math.uio.no
Cc: tex-k@cs.umb.edu
Subject: multiple files by the same name
Moral of this story: Don't keep fontfiles where they don't belong. It
makes kpathsea blind to them. Or wait for a fix if it hasn't been
fixed already.
If you have two files by the same name in the tree, it is more or less
random (i.e., directory order) which one will be found first, and hence
put in the hash table first, and hence retrieved first (or is it last?).
If it retrieves the wrong one -- .../pk/lcmss8.tfm -- then later on that
won't match the search criteria, and kpathsea will think there's no such file.
I suppose this could be fixed by checking all the files found until the
first match. I'm not sure how important this is to fix, but if someone
would like to look at it, that would be good by me!