On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Ken Jackson <cyg...@jackson.io> wrote: > Steven Woody wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was always using cygwin and today I installed texlive 2008 on my >> computer. But 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 <http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc.html> > has a link titled, "Binaries for i386-cygwin". You 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: > > echo "$PATH" > > Carefully look to insure the path is correct. > > type xelatex > > If the 'type' command can't find it, it's a different kind of problem > than not being able to execute. > > chmod +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: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Life is the only flaw in an otherwise perfect nonexistence -- Schopenhauer narke public key at http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371 (narkewo...@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
