The DOS version has in its override.pm a dummy definition of "fork", if not defined.

Fabrice Popineau wrote:

> ... should be ready soon. In fact it does work here. However, I'm wondering
> about the best way to achieve portability in perl. In fact, Override.pm is
> not quite enough. For example, there is the write_string_out() function :
> $NOFORK is a good idea for Win32, were fork is not available. But the
> fork() function is called anyway (and is failing with 'unimplemented'). So,
> wa can try to put write_string_out in Override.pm, but it makes use of
> non-local variables. So for the moment, I'm stuck with os dependent code in
> latex2html anyway. Other issues are gs related for example: under win32, you
> have to set GS_LIB, as the one compiled in is never the one were you are
> installing gs. I have (not so long) list of these points.
>
> Anybody to have a discussion about these issues in order to achieve the best
> integration as possible ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fabrice Popineau



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