- From: Andreas Seidl <address@hidden>
- To: Joseph Coffey <address@hidden>
- Cc: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: Problems with cygwin install
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 20:27:58 +0200 (CEST)
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I'm sorry to write you directly, however for reasons I don't understand
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the TexMacs list rejects my message.
Have you subscribed to:
http://lists.texmacs.org/wws/arc/texmacs-users
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I am having difficulties
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installing the cygwin ditribution of Texmacs via the instructions on
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your webpage:
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when I attempted to run texmacs from the cygwin prompt I got:
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exec: texmacs.bin not found
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Then I went and executed texmacs.bin directly. As one might expect it
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complained that the TexMacs Path was not sent correctly. So I opened up
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the texmacs "calling script (which sets the paths and then attempts to
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exec texmacs.bin.) in an editor and removed all of the "if"'s on the
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assumption that somehow the previous installation of the native port had
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confused this script. (I'm afraid I don't know what that z's in those
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lines do I am assuming its checking to see if the path is already set or
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not?).
man bash reveals:
-z string
True if the length of string is zero.
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The new script looked like this:
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#!/bin/sh
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#if [ -z "$TEXMACS_PATH" ] ; then
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TEXMACS_PATH=/usr/share/TeXmacs
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export TEXMACS_PATH
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# if [ -z "$TEXMACS_BIN_PATH" ] ; then
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TEXMACS_BIN_PATH=/usr/sbin/TeXmacs
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export TEXMACS_BIN_PATH
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# fi
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#else
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#TEXMACS_BIN_PATH="$TEXMACS_PATH"
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#export TEXMACS_BIN_PATH
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#fi
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PATH="$TEXMACS_BIN_PATH/bin:$PATH"
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$TEXMACS_BIN_PATH/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"}"
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export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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exec texmacs.bin "$@" < /dev/null
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I typed temxacs& (which calls this calling script no?)
try:
which texmacs
Could somebody who is involved with the native TeXmacs Windows port verify
or rebut the theory that installing it could lead to problems with the
PATH?
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At any rate this caused the following message:
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Error in procedure make-struct-layout:
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Error: wrong type of argument in position 1 (expecting STRINGP): pw
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I installed the 1.039 from your site. I also tried the version at the
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cygwin site. possible complicating issues:
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i have a copy of TexLIve installed
I don't know about this one.
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I use the STarNet x server. It works. The same problems are
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evident with the other Xwin server.
I run StarNet's X-Win32 as well without problems.
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I have a copy of the native windows
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port installed. It is however too buggy for daily use.
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Thank you for your kind assistance,
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Joseph Coffey
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
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Best Regards,
Andreas Seidl
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http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl
- Re: Problems with cygwin install, Andreas Seidl, 06/04/2004
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