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From: [e-mail] (Dan Reading)
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Subject: kpathsea not honoring path order with filename DB in place


kpathsea version 1.8
only change made was 'datadir = /usr/local/share/lib' in Makefile.in


I'm trying to have versions of latex3e and latex209 installed at
the same time. In order to do this I have a texmf/latex209 along
side of texmf/tex. And the following shell script:

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#!/bin/sh

#/usr/local/bin/latex209

# setup TEXINPUTS for latex209 run. Since we want to keep the old latex 2.09
# installed along with latex2e we must set the path so that
# latex209 gets its sty files before the 'standard input directory'.

TEXINPUTS=.:/usr/local/share/lib/texmf/latex209//:$TEXINPUTS
export TEXINPUTS

virtex \&latex209 $*
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If we use as an example book.sty it is located in two locations:
/usr/local/share/lib/texmf/latex209/base/book.sty
/usr/local/share/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/book.sty

if the 'ls-R' file is in place the latex2e version is found, not
the latex209 version like I intend. I understand that kpathsea
returns the first occurrence of the file name it finds.

Someone must have run into this situation before. I suppose I could
remove the tex/latex/base/book.sty entry from from the ls-R file.
That works but greatly slows down anyone wanting the latex2e version.
Also makes rebuilding the ls-R file more complicated.

Any other suggestions?

thanks in advance,
Dan R.
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