Re: [bug #46007] texi2dvi Msys support

2015-09-24 Thread Gavin Smith
On 23 September 2015 at 22:03, Vincent Belaïche wrote: > Anyway, with the simple patch > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=34939 , texi2dvi > works with MikTeX for the basic case when users don't use TEXINPUTS-like > envvars. > > It would also work

Re: [bug #46007] texi2dvi Msys support

2015-09-24 Thread Gavin Smith
On 23 September 2015 at 22:03, Vincent Belaïche wrote: >>> From reading that MikTeX mailing list msys bash does a conversion >>> from the colon style to the semicolon style >> >> AFAIK, it only does that in PATH, but not in other environment >> variables that uses the

Re: [bug #46007] texi2dvi Msys support

2015-09-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: vincent.belai...@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 23:04:38 +0200 > Cc: Texinfo > > >> From reading that MikTeX mailing list msys bash does a conversion > >> from the colon style to the semicolon style > > > > AFAIK, it only does that in PATH, but

Re: [bug #46007] texi2dvi Msys support

2015-09-24 Thread Vincent Belaïche
Le 24/09/2015 12:33, Gavin Smith a écrit : > On 23 September 2015 at 22:03, Vincent Belaïche > wrote: >> Anyway, with the simple patch >> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=34939 , texi2dvi >> works with MikTeX for the basic case when users don't use

Re: [bug #46007] texi2dvi Msys support

2015-09-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: vincent.belai...@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) > Cc: Vincent Belaïche , > Gavin Smith , > Texinfo > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:55:27 +0200 > > Well you are meaning that there are only two alternatives

Re: [bug #46007] texi2dvi Msys support

2015-09-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:57:50 +0100 > From: Gavin Smith > Cc: Eli Zaretskii > > This clarifies it a lot. Why do we need to support such a complicated > system? IMO, we don't. > Aren't there other bash interpreters on Windows that can be used >

Re: [bug #46007] texi2dvi Msys support

2015-09-24 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 06:27:21PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: vincent.belai...@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) > > Cc: Vincent Belaïche , > > Gavin Smith , > > Texinfo > > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:55:27

Re: [bug #46007] texi2dvi Msys support

2015-09-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:09:32 +0200 > From: Patrice Dumas > Cc: Vincent Belaïche , > bug-texinfo@gnu.org > > > MSYS is not bastard, it just wasn't meant to be used in this capacity. > > If you need something like that, just use Cygwin

Re: [bug #46007] texi2dvi Msys support

2015-09-24 Thread Vincent Belaïche
Le 24/09/2015 17:27, Eli Zaretskii a écrit : >> > From: vincent.belai...@gmail.com (Vincent Belaïche) >> > Cc: Vincent Belaïche , >> > Gavin Smith , >> > Texinfo >> > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:55:27 +0200 >> >

texi2dvi changes

2015-09-24 Thread Vincent Belaïche
Hello Gavin, Le 22/09/2015 19:53, Gavin Smith a écrit : > Hello Vincent and everyone else, > > Information about the changes to texi2dvi that I've made: > > No longer use a trick of renaming the recorder file to *.flz. In fact, > no special tricks at all in texi2dvi to handle this case. So the >