tetex 2.96 beta texlinks uses "nonstandard" access

>>>>> "ezra" == ezra peisach <[email protected]> writes:

    > Irix does not provide the program "access"

    > texk/texlinks uses the program "access" instead of test in the
    > search_symlinkdir() function.


--- texk/tetex/texlinks.orig    Thu Dec 25 22:33:17 2003
+++ texk/tetex/texlinks Mon May 10 21:42:38 2004
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
   kpsewhich=`check_for_binary kpsewhich`
   test -z "$kpsewhich" && return 1
   symlinkdir=`echo $kpsewhich | sed 's@/*kpsewhich$@@'`
-  access -w "$symlinkdir" || return 1
+  kpseaccess -w "$symlinkdir" || return 1
   touch "$symlinkdir/tl$$"
   if test -f "$selfautoloc/tl$$"; then
     rm -f "$symlinkdir/tl$$"
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@
   fi
   
   for d in $dirs; do
-    access -w $d \
+    kpseaccess -w $d \
       || { errmsg "$d: no write permissions. Skipping..."; continue; }
     # cnf_file_ln.$$ has lines with "format engine" pairs
     set x `cat cnf_file_ln.$$`; shift



Regards,
  Reinhard

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