teTeX mktexlsr problem
Robert A McDougall
McDougall@agecon.purdue.edu
Sat Sep 8 22:54:00 GMT 2001
Further to:
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Subject: teTeX mktexlsr problem
From: "Robert A McDougall" <McDougall at agecon dot purdue dot edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:56:57 EST
Organization: Agricultural Economics-Purdue
>
> mktexlsr misbehaves under Cygwin when $CYGWIN is unset or of zero
length.
>
> The error is in the test mktexlsr uses to decide
> whether to use Un*x- or W*nd*ws-style path separators:
>
> if test -z "$COMSPEC" && test -z "$ComSpec" || test -n "$CYGWIN"; then
> SEP=':'
> else
> SEP=';'
> fi
>
> This is wrong because it's possible (and reasonable) to use
> Cygwin without setting the $CYGWIN variable. Better is:
>
> if test -z "$COMSPEC" && test -z "$ComSpec" || test "x$OSTYPE" =
"xcygwin"; then
> SEP=':'
> else
> SEP=';'
> fi
A similar change needs to be made in mktex.opt. Otherwise,
with $CYGWIN unset, mktexpk makes "pk" files in the working
directory.
(Is this belaboring the obvious?)
--
robert mcdougall . center for global trade analysis
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