[tex-live] TeXdoc error: attempt to concatenate global 'viewext' (a nil value)

[Bernhard Walle]

Am 22.12.2009 13:59, schrieb Dr. Werner Fink:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:35:40PM +0100, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:56:10 +0100, "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner at suse.de>
>> wrote:
>>> just got a user report:
>>>
>>>   > texdoc l2kurz
>>>   /usr/bin/texdoc:662: attempt to concatenate global 'viewext' (a nil
>>>   value)
>>>
>>> I've verified that this happens in the lua /usr/bin/texdoc at
>>> line 662 with TeX Live 2008 and in line 667 with TeX Live 2009:
>>>
>>>      return config['viewer_'..viewext], viewer_replacement
>>>
>> Thanks for your report. Unfortunately, I have no access to my working
>> texlive+texdoc environment right now (holidays + laptop breakage), so I'm
>> afraid it'll take some time before I can look into it.
>>
>> In the meanwhile, may I request a few additional informations?
>> - Does it happen only with l2kurz? If so, what is the output of 'texdoc -l
>> l2kurk'?

No, with all other documentation, too.

  % texdoc -l l2kurz
  1	/usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/lshort-german/l2kurz.pdf
  Please enter the number of the file to view, anything else to skip: ^C


Regards,
Bernhard