Re: MINGW32 patch: windows-style paths in conf.texi (doc build)

[Michael Goffioul]

On 6/11/07, Benjamin Lindner <address@hidden> wrote:
> This patch translates the MSYS style paths in doc/conf.texi.in into
> pseudo-windows style paths by translating /c/foo/bar into c:/foo/bar.
> This is necessary when building the documentation with win32 MiKTeX.
>
> However this is probably not generally working, since /f/foo/bar could
> also be a perfectly valid posix path on a *nix system and here
> the translation would not make sense.
> So probably this should be a mingw32-specific patch applied seperately
> against source code when building
>
> comments?

I also have that problem (for my MSVC build) and I make the path change
manually. Another problem I have with MiKTeX is that etex and pdfetex do
not honor TEXINPUTS. Did you get around that problem?

Michael.