Re: texi2dvi: A more pleasant way to compile

[Akim Demaille]

>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Eli!

 >> The following patch transforms TeX into the program I would have liked
 >> it to be :)

 > You mean texi2dvi, not TeX, right?

Well, I did meant TeX, but since I won't even try to change TeX,
improving the wrapper meets my needs :)

 >> +    verbose "Copying $oformat file from `pwd` to $dest"
 >> +    cp -p "./$filename_noext.$oformat" "$dest"

 > Can we use "cp -p" in a portable script?  I thought not.

There is no such information in Autoconf's documentation, and actually
cp -p is even promoted (as a replacement for ln -s).