Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-28 Thread Karl Berry
the script needs to initialize IFS Ok, I put in the initialization. Thanks for the report explanation. - I don't know about the NULL_DEVICE and the path_sep setting changes I don't either, I just do what I'm told :). Whatever the Cygwin folks say should be done in the Cygwin part of

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-28 Thread Karl Berry
i.e., the patch that Ralf Wildenhues previously sent out is correct Ok, I applied the change to system.h, so that NULL_DEVICE will be /dev/null under Cygwin. Makes sense. Ralf's texi2dvi changes are clearly not generally applicable. E.g., Eli has spent a lot of time making Texinfo (and

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-25 Thread Karl Berry
This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: etexpdfetex language.def-translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini Either (1) the second word should be changed to etex, or (2) it should be arranged for etex in invoke pdfetex instead of etex. E.g., make etex a link to pdfetex,

RE: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex (was: failed checks for automake 1.9.6)

2006-05-24 Thread Karl Berry
Ok, you got me curious. How does TeX know what application wrote the file if it's not to do with the contents of that file? Sorry, I was referring to the one-line source file \input texinfo @bye As for the .fmt file, yes, it surely records whether tex, etex, pdfetex, etc., was used to

Re: Fw: bug in texi2dvi, and hack patch

2005-05-24 Thread Karl Berry
if { test -x $dir/$1 test -f $dir/$1; } || { test -x $dir/$1.exe test -f $dir/$1.exe; }; then This seems sensible. I can't actually test it, since I don't have either Cygwin or DJPP, but at least it is symmetric. Stepan, do you have an objection to it? Thanks, k -- Unsubscribe

Re: Fw: bug in texi2dvi, and hack patch

2005-02-10 Thread Karl Berry
Back on this thread about texi2dvi and cygwin from a couple weeks ago. 2) On cygwin, if both $dir/tex.exe exists and a directory $dir/tex/ exist, this function misses the existence of tex.exe. I don't see why the presence of $dir/tex would affect things. tex.exe would never be found on

Re: Fw: bug in texi2dvi, and hack patch

2005-01-23 Thread Karl Berry
Greetings, Regarding texi2dvi and cygwin, please see if the new version (below) works. (Akim, I'm cc-ing you since you've worked so much on texi2dvi, not to mention autoconf, that I figured you might spot problems.) Thanks, karl #! /bin/sh # texi2dvi --- produce DVI (or PDF) files from

Re: Fw: bug in texi2dvi, and hack patch

2005-01-18 Thread Karl Berry
Subject: Fw: bug in texi2dvi, and hack patch Thanks very much for the report and various fixes. I'll fix it one way or another. Regards, karl -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: