Re: Karl Berry: Re: Nick Dokos: texi2dvi egrep regexp

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Subject: Re: Karl Berry: Re: Nick Dokos: texi2dvi egrep regexp
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 17:27:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B502F70-93E5-485E-B4B9-4850A06B7925@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sk0fk6eo.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>

On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 21:06:24 -0700, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> I have filed a bug report on the Fedora bugzilla[1] pointing to all
>> the relevant discussions about this issue. Feel free to add to/edit
>> it. Thanks everyone for narrowing this down. :)
>
> And this bug has already been reported (twice) to Debian, as it turns
> out:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584191
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586134
>
> No resolution in either bug stream although suggestions do include
> [A-Za-z] and [[:alpha:]].
>
> I have simply edited /usr/bin/texi2dvi (but need to do this on all of
> my other systems) and hope that next time it is upgraded the bug will
> have been fixed...

Hi everyone,

I am looking for a way out which will allow pdf compilation of Org
work out of the box, and still allow texi2dvi to be used where possible.

I have so far come up with two possible work-arounds and would
like to hear if one of them makes sense:

1.  I could set the environment variable LC_ALL
    for the duration of the texi2dvi command to some value
    like C?  That should fix the egrep call, but could
    it have adverse effects on the pdflatex and bibtex runs or
    any other stuff used in texi2dvi?

2. On startup, I could use

   (if (= 0 (shell-command "echo foo | egrep \"[A-z]\""))
            ....

   to check if there is a problem and in this case go for
   manual pdflatex runs rather than using texi2dvi.  THis might work,
   but it would be a bit unpredictable what ends up being used,
   and with no setup in Org you could get different sets of commands
   on different machines.

Any ather ideas?  Comments?

Thanks.

- Carsten

- Carsten

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