Re: Patch for building doc under Windows

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Oct-2007, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| On 10/25/07, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > On 25-Oct-2007, Michael Goffioul wrote:
| >
| > | Hi,
| > |
| > | I'd like to propose the attached patch to solve various problems I've
| > | always had when building documentation. One part of the patch makes
| > | use of the correct sepchar to build TEXINPUTS value. The other one
| > | tries to avoid the use of "--output" argument, because it is not supported
| > | under MiKTeX.
| >
| > OK.  Will you please add a comment about this so that later on someone
| > doesn't find the --output option and try to reverse this change?
| >
| > | Note: I completely dropped the texi2[dvi|pdf] versions of MSYS or
| > | GnuWin32, because they do not work well with MiKTeX and switched
| > | to the texi2dvi provided by MiKTeX; hence the COMSPEC unsetting
| > | trick should not be needed anymore.
| >
| > OK, then why to the commands still contain $(UNSETCOMSPEC)?  If that
| > can be removed, then please also remove its definition.
| >
| > ChangeLog?
| 
| OK, here's a new patch and the ChangeLog entries.

I applied the patch.

Thanks,

jwe