X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS,WEIRD_PORT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20091003140537.5a3c7bff@travel> References: <20091003140537.5a3c7bff@travel> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 03:11:01 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: what is interfering texlive? From: Steven Woody To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: > Steven Woody wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was always using cygwin and today I installed texlive 2008 on my >> computer. =A0But I found if I run texlive's xelatex command on my >> cygwin bash prompt, it will always return a "Program is not found" >> error. When I run the same command line under dos command prompt, >> it was fine. >> >> In my .bash_profile, the texlive path is set to be searched firstly. >> >> Can anyone give me a clue? > > > I haven't used that software, so these are only suggestions. > > The Tex Live documentation site > has a link titled, "Binaries for i386-cygwin". =A0You apparently > installed the win32 version, but maybe that one would be better. Actually, there is no a word 'i366-cygwin' in the first page of the documentation. > > Try these under bash: > > =A0echo "$PATH" > > Carefully look to insure the path is correct. > > =A0type xelatex > > If the 'type' command can't find it, it's a different kind of problem > than not being able to execute. > > =A0chmod +x xelatax > > Maybe bash doesn't recognize it as an executable. > > -Ken Jackson Now, I think I found the problem: I reinstalled the texlive (that is 2008) and put it in c:\texlive rather than "c:\Program File\texlive", then it works! I guess this is because the space in texlive's path ... > > -- > Problem reports: =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: =A0 =A0 =A0http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > --=20 Life is the only flaw in an otherwise perfect nonexistence -- Schopenhauer narke public key at http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371 (narkewoody@gmail.com) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple