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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
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Subject: Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex
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> Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 12:13:03 -0500
> From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
> Cc: Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de
> 
> Ralf's texi2dvi changes are clearly not generally applicable.  E.g., Eli
> has spent a lot of time making Texinfo (and everything else) work under
> DJGPP.  I can't just blow that away.  

The suggested change will blow away not only the DJGPP support, but
also the native Windows (a.k.a. MinGW) build support.  We should try
to support Cygwin without breaking other ports.

> If there's a way to detect when it's running under Cygwin, then the
> changes could be conditionalized as needed, I presume.

I think CYGWIN is such a variable, but Chris is a better person to
tell the details.

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