Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 17:53:49 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: fpTeX and Cygwin Message-ID: <20010226175349.R27406@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <86n1badyca.fsf@bock.chem.unc.edu> <3A99B4F7.CF733C21@Wanadoo.fr> <86elwmdun8.fsf@bock.chem.unc.edu> <3A99EA1F.BE6E78E8@Wanadoo.fr> <20010226095343.G27406@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3A9A6262.2E630CED@Wanadoo.fr> <20010226155658.O27406@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3A9A84C1.8B9E503@Wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A9A84C1.8B9E503@Wanadoo.fr>; from JGMBenoit@Wanadoo.fr on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:30:57PM +0100 On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:30:57PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > That would be really nice. Did you look for the usual binmode/textmode > > problem? The most annoying case is textmode files on binmode mounts. > > I have not encountered such problem yet, > but I have not made systematic tests as well: > is there a special/easy way to make such tests ? If you have a binary mount point try to read input files with DOS line endings. But in general the package should read all binary input files (eg. font files) with O_BINARY and all text input files (configuration files and all other ascii files) with O_TEXT mode. An easy way would be to link with /lib/automode.o and look into the sources for `open' and `fopen' calls for binary files. These calls should be changed to use O_BINARY resp. "rb" mode if that's not already done. > > If you think the package is ok I would ask you for packaging so that > > the following configure options match: > > > > --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --localstatedir=/var > > Is there a special directory for `fonts' ? Uhm, not that I'm aware of. If prefix is /usr I assume it will create the fonts somewhere in /usr/share. > Futhermore the all TeX stuff is very very big: fonts, packages, ... > I guess that only the binary programs (and there corresponding sources) > has to be packaged: > the remaining needed files can be downloaded from CTAN sites. I think so. Except for some fonts etc. to start with. > It should be nice to have an available cygwin binary version of > ghostscript. Charles? Didn't you mention ghostscript today? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple