Generating index when compiling document

[Udicoudco]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 12:12 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, Udicoudco wrote:
>
>
> Udi,
>
> Interesting result:
> # texindy biota-to-set-wq-standards.idx
> texindy: not a symlink as required for TeX Live at /usr/bin/texindy line 414.
>
> Here's that function, starting at line 409:
> if ( $is_TL ) { # TeX Live
>
>      if ( $is_w32 ) {
>          $xindy = "$cmd_dir/xindy.pl";
>      } else { # LINE 414 follows immediately:
>          die "$cmd: not a symlink as required for TeX Live"  unless -l $0;
>          # FIXME: What this good for? Ain't xindy not also
>          # "$cmd_dir/xindy.pl" in a Unix TL installation? Why does
>          # Peter use the directory of the last symlink, where it just
>          # finds the symlink again that is then expanded by xindy.pl?
>          $real_cmd = $0;
>          $cmd_dir = dirname($real_cmd);
>          # Follow symlinks, but remember last one
>          my $lcmd_dir;
>          while ( -l $real_cmd ) {
>              $lcmd_dir = $cmd_dir;
>              $real_cmd = readlink($real_cmd);
>              $real_cmd = "$lcmd_dir/$real_cmd"  unless $real_cmd =~ m,^[\\/],; # relative link
>              $cmd_dir = dirname($real_cmd);
>          }
>          $xindy = "$lcmd_dir/xindy";
>      }
>      # FIXME: That's a very ugly kludge to achieve that the VERSION
>      # file is found in output_xindy_release(). The real solution is to
>      # copy the code from xindy.pl that determines $modules_dir and
>      # $lib_dir and use that code as well.
>      $cmd_dir = Cwd::realpath("$cmd_dir/../../xindy/modules");
>      die "Cannot locate xindy modules directory"  unless -f "$cmd_dir/../VERSION";
> } else {
> ...
>
> And I don't know perl.
>
> Rich

Rich,

Which latex distribution did you install and which operating system
are you working on?

Regards,
Udi
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