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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:04:34 +0100
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden>, 
>       Texinfo <address@hidden>, Karl Berry <address@hidden>
> 
> 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=":"

Yes.