On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:35:38PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Kayvan" == Kayvan A Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> Your patch does not sound right. It says that under cygwin, all
> >> programs should use dos-style paths. If this is the case, a simple
> >> #ifdef __CYGWIN__ could be used to hardcode this into LyX...
>
> Kayvan> No, it's the other way around. In my case, the teTeX that
> Kayvan> comes with Cygwin does not need dos-style paths.
>
> My point was that we should/could consider that LyX under cygwin uses
> unix-style paths, while under mingw it uses dos-style path. Of course
> this is probably too simple...
>
Yes, too simple. It depends on what the TeX implementation uses.
> For example, what does ImageMagick do?
I use ImageMagick from cygwin, and I think it doesn't matter.
> Kayvan> By the way, the test for whether or not we need path
> Kayvan> correction already existed in $(srcdir)/lib/configure.m4 and I
> Kayvan> merely added a way for LyX to make use of the information.
> Kayvan> This is why the test must be run in lib/configure and not
> Kayvan> hardcoded.
>
> The relevant code says:
>
> #### Adjust PATH for Win32 (Cygwin)
> case `uname -s` in
> CYGWIN*)
> echo "configure: cygwin detected; path correction"
> srcdir=`cygpath -w "${srcdir}" | tr '\\\\' /`
> echo "srcdir=${srcdir}" ;;
> esac
>
> I do not see why in LyX code we cannot use a #ifdef __CYGWIN__ instead
> of that. What's the difference?
The difference is that one is hard-coded and the other is configurable. ;-)
> Kayvan> My particular installation will work just fine if I switch
> Kayvan> from tetex to MikTeX (which needs windows-style paths) after
> Kayvan> doing Tools->Reconfigure. This would not be the case with a
> Kayvan> hard-coded requirement (needing either Unix-style or
> Kayvan> Windows-style paths).
>
> I do not see where this test makes a difference between tetex and
> miktex. But it may be because my night has been a bit too short.
Again, the difference is that one is configurable and the other
is hard-coded. I don't think it complicates things that much and there
is no loss of functionality.
On the other hand, I think that adding a flag to all the converters is
overkill.
In any case, if we say that Cygwin is another Unix variant, that also
works for me. So, choose whichever path you want. If there is a real
problem, I'm sure other Cygwin users will speak up and we can resurrect
this patch.
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