bug#31079: Windows - Emacs-25.3.1 Can't find source.tex file

[Liyu Gong]

Hi Ikumi,

The results is: "c:/cygwin64/bin/kpsewhich.exe"   !!!!!!!!!

Sorry, I must messed up somewhere in my system. Thank you so much!

Best,
Liyu

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Ikumi Keita <address@hidden> wrote:
> Liyu, thank you very much.
>
>>>>>> Liyu Gong <address@hidden> writes:
>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 8:35 AM, Ikumi Keita <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Liyu Gong <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> Hi Ikumi,
>>>> Sorry, I just got up. The results is the same: a dot followed with a
>>>> newline "\n"
>>>
>>> Thanks.  Well, then...
>>>
>>> 1. How about the following two?
>>>
>>> (call-process "kpsewhich" nil (list standard-output nil) nil
>>> "--expand-brace" "{.,..}")
>>>
>>> (call-process "kpsewhich" nil (list standard-output nil) nil
>>> "--expand-brace" "{.,./.}")
>>>
>
>> These two produce the same result: a dot followed by a newline "\n"
>
>>> 2. Could you issue the following command with windows command prompt?
>>> kpsewhich --version
>
>> C:\Users\gongl>kpsewhich --version
>> kpathsea version 6.2.3
>> Copyright 2017 Karl Berry & Olaf Weber.
>> License LGPLv2.1+: GNU Lesser GPL version 2.1 or later
>> <http://gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html>
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Then the kpsewhich binary must really be the official texlive version.
> I'm a sort of giving up.
> I suppose this can hardly be the case, `call-process' might not call the
> same binary.  What does (executable-find "kpsewhich") return?  On my
> w32 emacs 25.2, it returns "c:/texlive/2017/bin/win32/kpsewhich.exe".
>
> Best,
> Ikumi Keita