Re: [bug #43122] texi2dvi does not compile enough times to get toc

[Gavin Smith]

On 17 September 2015 at 20:20, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> In the beginning there was only 'test -n "$COMSPEC$ComSpec"', and the
> comment still says so.  Then someone wanted to exclude Cygwin from
> that (since Cygwin is a Posix emulation, so it uses ':' even though
> $ComSpec is set, as always on Windows).  But then someone added
> "mingw" and "djgpp" to that, which of course is a mistake, since they
> don't need the uname test to begin with.
>
> So just leave only cygwin there, and that's it.

To confirm, you say that we should do the following?

Index: texi2dvi
===================================================================
--- texi2dvi    (revision 6629)
+++ texi2dvi    (working copy)
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
 # directories in TEXINPUTS -- except for Cygwin et al., where COMSPEC
 # might be inherited, but : is used.
 if test -n "$COMSPEC$ComSpec" \
-   && uname | $EGREP -iv 'cygwin|mingw|djgpp' >/dev/null; then
+   && uname | $EGREP -iv 'cygwin' >/dev/null; then
   path_sep=";"
 else
   path_sep=":"