From 631869dc7fa4153625642aac0d861efafecdad5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cody Boone Ferguson <53008573+xexyl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 03:14:32 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add PDFLATEX var to var.mk

This is not strictly necessary any more than some of the others but two
entries use this tool (at least since I added them back - they were
missing) and it seems better to have it this way.
---
 2018/poikola/Makefile | 2 +-
 2019/poikola/Makefile | 2 +-
 thanks-for-help.md    | 8 +++++++-
 var.mk                | 1 +
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/2018/poikola/Makefile b/2018/poikola/Makefile
index c8617c58d..d7ae30694 100644
--- a/2018/poikola/Makefile
+++ b/2018/poikola/Makefile
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ data: ${DATA}
 	@${TRUE}
 
 docs: ${DOCS}
-	pdflatex ${DOCS}
+	${PDFLATEX} ${DOCS}
 
 
 # both all and alt
diff --git a/2019/poikola/Makefile b/2019/poikola/Makefile
index dcd5214f3..e8a8cf392 100644
--- a/2019/poikola/Makefile
+++ b/2019/poikola/Makefile
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ data: ${DATA}
 	@${TRUE}
 
 docs: ${DOCS}
-	pdflatex ${DOCS}
+	${PDFLATEX} ${DOCS}
 
 # both all and alt
 #
diff --git a/thanks-for-help.md b/thanks-for-help.md
index b740d1731..cf183fd1c 100644
--- a/thanks-for-help.md
+++ b/thanks-for-help.md
@@ -4243,6 +4243,7 @@ Cody also added the [example-1.txt](/2019/lynn/example-1.txt) and
 entry existing.
 
 
+
 ## <a name="2019_yang"></a>[2019/yang](/2019/yang/prog.c) ([README.md](/2019/yang/README.md]))
 
 [Cody](#cody) added the [try.sh](/2019/yang/try.sh) script which also involved
@@ -4381,7 +4382,12 @@ fixed, a good example being [1986/marshall](#1986marshall-readmemd) (see the
 had to be done to fix it).
 
 There was a 'problem' where `${MAKE}` was `$(MAKE)`: this doesn't break anything
-but it is inconsistent with the rest of the `${foo}` tools.
+but it is inconsistent with the rest of the `${foo}` tools even if by tradition
+it is `$(MAKE)`.
+
+Cody also added missing variables like `BASH` and `PDFLATEX` to the
+[var.mk](/var.mk) file and removed another that was deemed problematic or
+undesired.
 
 A lot of the fixes with the Makefiles that Cody made were done with his [sgit
 tool](https://github.com/xexyl/sgit).
diff --git a/var.mk b/var.mk
index 99c8469c2..a03e6f621 100644
--- a/var.mk
+++ b/var.mk
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ PATCH= patch
 PATHCHK= pathchk
 PAX= pax
 PERL= perl
+PDFLATEX= pdflatex
 PICO= pico
 PR= pr
 PRINTENV= printenv