Hi everyone.

I'm running an x86 Slackware 13. When i start emacs with auctex enable, or when i launch latex, the process hang.

For emacs i have found that it's kpsewhich that try to scan my whole home (lot of Gb).

The problem is that i had defined my home directory with a trailing slash.
If i remove the trailing slash, there isn't any problem.
If you want to reproduce the bug try : On the doc page of kpathsea, there is a section "tilde expansion" (http://www.pd.infn.it/TeX/doc/html/k...a_3.html#SEC55) that say : So my question is : do you think there is a bug in kpsewhich ?

I can invest this problem, but i would like to have your opinion before.

Thank you.

Paul.

Even if it were a bug, it would never be mended as tetex is no more officially supported. You should install texlive from slackbuilds.org.

I still use tetex, but as the other poster said, it is not supported.

I tried both of your commands. Both worked. I also use emacs+auctex without any problems.

Tank you for your suggestions.

plasmonics, have you tried with a huge home (mine is aprox 50G) ?

Do you know if there is any plan to swith to the texlive in the main distribution ?

So long as I know there is such plan, but no one can definitely say when it will be officially ported. You could write to Patrick Volkerding to ask

My home directory is 16GB. I have no more space.

Well, it is not exactly a swiftly executed operation to begin with.