Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/20/2010 11:43 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:00:14AM -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >> On 8/20/2010 7:53 AM, Steve Holden wrote: >>> On 8/20/2010 5:29 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: On Thu 25 May 2006, Karl Berry wrote: > This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the p

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:14:29AM -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >I'd like to take this opportunity to say how much I personally >appreciate the availability of Cygwin - I use it daily, and it makes >the computing experience on Windows far more bearable and productive >than it otherwise would be. I'l

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:00:14AM -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >On 8/20/2010 7:53 AM, Steve Holden wrote: >> On 8/20/2010 5:29 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: >>> On Thu 25 May 2006, Karl Berry wrote: >>> This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: etex pdfetex lang

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/20/2010 9:22 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/20/2010 06:00 AM, Steve Holden wrote: >> >> My intention was to highlight the fact that issues will (eventually) be >> re-raised thanks to the phenomenal group memory of this list. But of >> course the issue might have had attention (or at least been

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/20/2010 06:00 AM, Steve Holden wrote: > > My intention was to highlight the fact that issues will (eventually) be > re-raised thanks to the phenomenal group memory of this list. But of > course the issue might have had attention (or at least been resolved as > "wontfix" with appropriate disc

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/20/2010 7:53 AM, Steve Holden wrote: > On 8/20/2010 5:29 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> On Thu 25 May 2006, Karl Berry wrote: >> >>> This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: >>> >>> etexpdfetex language.def >>> -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini >>> >>> Either

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/20/2010 5:29 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On Thu 25 May 2006, Karl Berry wrote: > >> This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: >> >> etex pdfetex language.def-translate-file=cp227.tcx >> *etex.ini >> >> Either (1) the second word should be changed to "etex", or >> (2)

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Thu 25 May 2006, Karl Berry wrote: > This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: > > etex pdfetex language.def-translate-file=cp227.tcx > *etex.ini > > Either (1) the second word should be changed to "etex", or > (2) it should be arranged for "etex" in invoke pdfetex i

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-28 Thread Karl Berry
i.e., the patch that Ralf Wildenhues previously sent out is correct Ok, I applied the change to system.h, so that NULL_DEVICE will be /dev/null under Cygwin. Makes sense. Ralf's texi2dvi changes are clearly not generally applicable. E.g., Eli has spent a lot of time making Texinfo (and ever

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:13:03PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: >>On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:35:53PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>i.e., the patch that Ralf Wildenhues previously sent out is correct >>(which shouldn't be too surprising since it came from the texinfo >>release). There should be no

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-28 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 12:13:03 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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. Th

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:35:53PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >i.e., the patch that Ralf Wildenhues previously sent out is correct >(which shouldn't be too surprising since it came from the texinfo >release). ^ cygwin (I bet I'll regret not making that clear) cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
I forgot to cc bug-texinfo on this, so let me do that and expand on things a little. On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:43:19AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 02:09:58PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: >Content-Description: message body text >>the script needs to initialize IFS >>

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 02:09:58PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: Content-Description: message body text >the script needs to initialize IFS > >Ok, I put in the initialization. Thanks for the report & explanation. > >- I don't know about the NULL_DEVICE and the path_sep setting changes > >I don'

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-27 Thread Karl Berry
the script needs to initialize IFS Ok, I put in the initialization. Thanks for the report & explanation. - I don't know about the NULL_DEVICE and the path_sep setting changes I don't either, I just do what I'm told :). Whatever the Cygwin folks say should be done in the Cygwin part of

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 10:05:20AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >Hi Karl, Christopher, > >* Karl Berry wrote on Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:21:16AM CEST: >> >> [Excluding cygwin, I doubt they care about this part.] > >Oh yes they will care especially about this part. ;-) > >> $ texindex ./main.a

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Karl, Christopher, * Karl Berry wrote on Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:21:16AM CEST: > > [Excluding cygwin, I doubt they care about this part.] Oh yes they will care especially about this part. ;-) > $ texindex ./main.au ./main.cp ./main.pg ./main.sb > Segmentation fault (core dumped) >

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex [attn texinfo maintainer]

2006-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:33:12PM +, Eric Blake wrote: >cgf wrote: > >> >0022FF88 61005EB3 (, , , ) >> >> That's apparently a call to mktemp, although I can't tell what's causing >> the problem. > >Well, looking at the source to the cygwin distribution of

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex [attn texinfo maintainer]

2006-05-26 Thread Eric Blake
cgf wrote: > >0022FF88 61005EB3 (, , , ) > > That's apparently a call to mktemp, although I can't tell what's causing > the problem. Well, looking at the source to the cygwin distribution of texinfo, it is pretty obvious: $ diff -u texindex.c.orig texindex.

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 06:46:21AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >$ cat texindex.exe.stackdump >Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=6105440C > >eax=004A ebx=0003 ecx=0013 edx=02B9E8A9 esi=00405457 edi=0040544D > >ebp=0022EE08 esp=0022ED60 program=C:\cygwin\bin\texindex.exe, pid 2

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:04:15AM CEST: > This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: > > etex pdfetex language.def-translate-file=cp227.tcx > *etex.ini > > Either (1) the second word should be changed to "etex", or > (2) it should be arrang

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-25 Thread Karl Berry
This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: etexpdfetex language.def-translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini Either (1) the second word should be changed to "etex", or (2) it should be arranged for "etex" in invoke pdfetex instead of etex. E.g., make "etex" a link to pdfet

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:03:39PM CEST: > > Ralf, what is the output if you run > tex \\end > etex \\end > pdfetex \\end See typescript, attached. > This shows that texi2dvi is invoking etex. > This shows that mktexfmt is invoking pdfetex to build etex.fmt. >

RE: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex (was: failed checks for automake 1.9.6)

2006-05-24 Thread Karl Berry
Ok, you got me curious. How does TeX know what application wrote the file if it's not "to do with" the contents of that file? Sorry, I was referring to the one-line source file \input texinfo @bye As for the .fmt file, yes, it surely records whether tex, etex, pdfetex, etc., was used t

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2006-05-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Dave, * Dave Korn wrote on Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:41:51PM CEST: > On 23 May 2006 13:13, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > [ As per cygwin-L tradition, I am replying only to the lists; Ralf, if you see > this and Karl does not, please feel free to forward it. ] I'm sure Karl reads bug-texinfo; he ma

RE: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex (was: failed checks for automake 1.9.6)

2006-05-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23 May 2006 13:13, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: [ As per cygwin-L tradition, I am replying only to the lists; Ralf, if you see this and Karl does not, please feel free to forward it. ] > In the Automake testsuite, we're experiencing a bug with texi2dvi on > Cygwin that looks like a problem with the

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex (was: failed checks for automake 1.9.6)

2006-05-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ this is http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2006-05/msg1.html aka http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2006-05/msg00017.html and the original report is http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2006-04/msg00017.html ] Hello Cygwin folks, In the Automake testsuite, w