xindy cannot open the temp file

Question

I have encountered a problem by using xindy within glossaries. After the first call of pdflatex, I gave makeglossaries mytex in command line. Unfortunately, I got the error

"LOAD: A file with name C:\Users\xyzxyz~1\AppData\Local\Temp\vEslm0pNhL does not exist".

With some work I found out that the file C:\Users\xyzxyz~1\AppData\Local\Temp\vEslm0pNhL has been correctly generated by xindy.pl. However, it cannot be loaded by xindy_lisp.exe, which expected full path name instead of shorted one (DOS style), i.e. C:\Users\xyzxyzabcabc\AppData\Local\Temp\vEslm0pNhL. Does anyone have the same issue? How can I get over it?

I use the texlive2011 distribution on Win 7. My tex file is (the example from glossaries):

% This file is public domain
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[style=long4colheaderborder,xindy]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries

\newglossaryentry{w}{name={$w$},
sort=w,
description={width},
symbol=m}
\newglossaryentry{M}{name={$M$},
sort=M,
description={mass},
symbol=kg}

\begin{document}

\printglossaries
The width, \gls{w}, is measured in meters. The mass, \gls{M} is measured in kilograms.

\end{document}

Answer 1

There's a workaround to set another temporary folder for your makeglossaries session. First, let's see my execution:

If I type echo %TEMP% in the command prompt, the full path for the temporary folder is displayed:

C:\>echo %TEMP%
C:\Users\Paulo\AppData\Local\Temp

In order to use another temporary folder, it's just a matter of redefining the environment variable TEMP:

C:\>set TEMP=C:\paulo\mytemp

Then you can safely run makeglossaries for that command prompt session:

Hope it helps. :)