If $EPREFIX contains symlinks, kpsewhich will return a resolved path,
which results in out of prefix errors for packages which use it.
Hence, don't resolve paths that are absolute, to avoid this problem.


--- texlive-20100722-source/texk/kpathsea/progname.c
+++ texlive-20100722-source/texk/kpathsea/progname.c
@@ -396,7 +396,11 @@
   if (!self)
     self = concat3 (".", DIR_SEP_STRING, argv0);
 
-  ret = xdirname (remove_dots (kpse, expand_symlinks (kpse, self)));
+  if (kpathsea_absolute_p (kpse, self, true)) {
+     ret = xdirname (remove_dots (kpse, self));
+  } else {
+     ret = xdirname (remove_dots (kpse, expand_symlinks (kpse, self)));
+  }
 
   free (self);