Re: teTeX mktexlsr problem

[520066587150-0001 at t-online dot de (Jerome BENOIT)]

Thank you for your cooperation:
  I will incorporate this fix in the next release.

Thanks,
Jerome BENOIT

Robert A McDougall wrote:
> 
> mktexlsr misbehaves under Cygwin when $CYGWIN is unset or of zero length.
> 
> Typical symptoms are that the web2c filename databases don't get
> made, and TeX, LaTeX etc. can't find their "fmt" files.
> 
> The error is in the test mktexlsr uses to decide
> whether to use Un*x- or W*nd*ws-style path separators:
> 
> if test -z "$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
> 
> >From the mail archive, it seems likely that this was William
> D. Kirby's problem
> (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg00471.html).
> Also that Kenta MURATA had the same problem, and proposed an
> alternative solution, namely, unset $COMSPEC
> (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg00476.html).
> 
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