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Re: bug in texi2dvi, on Windows/Msys2 it cannot find tex


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: bug in texi2dvi, on Windows/Msys2 it cannot find tex
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 22:50:19 +0300

> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 15:53:31 +0200
> From: Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera@gmail.com>
> 
> Would this be an acceptable fix? (turn OSTYPE to uppercase when setting 
> MSYSTEM)
> 
>     MSYSTEM=$(echo $OSTYPE | tr [a-z] [A-Z]) uname | $EGREP -iv 
> 'cygwin|msys' >/dev/null; then
> 
> It was suggested by Markus Mützel in a downstream discussion (Msys2) and 
> it works for me in Msys2, cygwin and the installation I described which 
> I believe is what MSYSTEM refers to in texi2dvi source (but I am not 
> sure). On all these systems, the path separator needs to be ":".

But the part after "then" above in the script says

  path_sep=";"

which is inappropriate for MSYS/MSYS2 and Cygwin.  So you need to
reverse the condition?



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