Subject: Re: teTeX mktexlsr problem
From: "Robert A McDougall" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 00:52:46 EST

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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