Re: can environment variables be used in miktexstartup.ini

Christian Schenk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/27/2013 12:08 AM, Rick Pember wrote:
>> CommonInstall=${MIKTEX}
>>
>> or
>>
>> CommonInstall=$(MIKTEX)
>>
>> or
>>
>> CommonInstall=$MIKTEX
>
> Unfortunately, none of these worked either. In all case, pdflatex is
> failing to find article.cls. If the full path name is used, e.g.,

miktexstartup.ini seems to be a special case. Browsing the source code I 
would expect that the syntax

CommonInstall=<ENVVAR>

works (also see 
http://blog.miktex.org/post.aspx?id=46363963-a9e0-4928-b54c-166499044524).

I will try it. If it doesn't work, it must be a bug.

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