On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Mirko Vukovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regarding EGREP, it's defined just below where I used it; I hadn't > > noticed that. Fixed now. Either move the code, or grab it from cvs, or > > set the envvar EGREP=egrep before running the script. > > > > As for the actual problem, well, if the path sep is set wrong due to the > > grep failure, that might be why the source file isn't being found. We > > can hope. > > > > Best, > > k > > > > Thanks Karl. > > I fixed egrep, and finally the lightbulb went off: > > I am running under cygwin, but using a windows tex distribution: > miktex. texi2dvi is invoking miktex's pdftex using the posix path, > but miktex has no clue as to what the /home/lisp... path is. What it > needs is a windows path. > > Now, all is not lost, because cygwin has a utility cygpath that can > convert from a unix-like path to a full windows path. Do you have any > idea where in texi2dvi I should perform this conversion? (I think it > should happen on the command line that calls the tex executable.) > > Thanks, > > Mirko > I thought some more, and looked around. MiKTeX comes with its own, windows-aware texi2dvi. I pointed my path to it, and the documentation was built correctly.
So, sorry for troubling you. I guess the only good thing that came out of it was finding the egrep bug. Thanks again, Mirko
