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Re: Windows problems
From: |
Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
Subject: |
Re: Windows problems |
Date: |
11 Jun 2001 00:16:14 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) Emacs/20.7 |
Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm getting more and more convinced that using a
> cygwin shell as the Lilypond shell causes more
> problems as it solves.
Maybe so. As far as I'm concerned, the only problem that it solves
is: providing binaries for windows that more or less work. It would
be nice if somebody would provide, test and maintain command.com and
cmd.exe shells; that somebody is not going to be me.
> Some examples:
>
> - It seems we need wrappers for more or less any
> program to convert the file paths back and forth.
> For example, yap was unable to make feta*.pk
> files, since $MFINPUTS was set to the cygwin
> path, not the windows path.
> (MFINPUTS="$WINDOWS_MFINPUTS" fixed the problem)
Yes, dvips had that problem too. -> we need a similar wrapper for
yap; I'll add it.
Sidenote: I do find this ugly too, but I expect cygwin to include a
(unix compatible) python, teTeX (with xdvi as an option) and ghostview
too, within (half) a year or so.
> - None of the Lilypond programs is able to handle
> files specified using an absolute path. Example:
>
> $ ly2dvi /usr/lilypond/input/test/manual-clef.ly
>
> Running LilyPond...
> GNU LilyPond 1.4.2
> warning: can't find file: `/cygdrive/c/usr/lilypond/input/test/manual-clef
> warning: no lilypond output found for \usr\lilypond\input\test\manual-clef
Ah, that's a bug somewhere. But this has litte todo with bash shell, I
guess?
> - There's no information in the current documentation on
> how to translate between Cygwin paths and Windows paths;
> how can a Windows user now where to place the .ly files.
man cygpath?
Jan.
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- Windows problems, Mats Bengtsson, 2001/06/10
- Re: Windows problems,
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <=