[l2h] can't find GS6.01

[Steve Mayer]

GS6.01 has changed the way it reports version and other information so that
the coding in \bin\config.pl can't find the info it needs. There was a
discussion on this a while ago in this mailing list.

I'm no expert at Perl. Well, to tell the truth I haven't even reached the
beginner
stage, but I have managed to make some changes that will allow latex2html to
install with 6.01. These changes are only a temporary patch and I hope some
of the experts who subscribe to this mailing list will be able to do a
proper job.

Firstly make the changes Luis Seidel suggests in
http://cournot.u-strasbg.fr/yildi/l2h_eng.html. Then

1. In config.bat change the first few lines to:

@ECHO OFF
REM this is a DOS batch file

REM *vital* This is the path to the perl interpreter
set opath=%path%
REM put in the correct paths for perl in the next two lines
set path=%path%;c:\perl\bin;c\perl\lib
set PERL=c:\perl\bin\perl95.exe
REM change the following paths if necessary
set gs_lib=c:\aladdin\gs6.01\lib;c:\aladdin\fonts

REM ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
ECHO Starting Configuration...


and at the end of config.bat add
ECHO Configuration procedure finished
set path=%opath%
set perl=
set gs_lib=
:END

2. In config.pl (in \config subdirectory) add after
     close(GS);
and before
      # Configure things determined by the Ghostscript version
the 2 lines
    @gs_devs=qw(pnmraw ppmraw);
    $gs_version=6.01;

Config.bat should now run properly. When it's finished you can then run
install.bat to complete the installation.

As I've said before I'm not a Perl expert, so I can't guarantee this and
there are probably (definitely!) better ways of doing it.

Steve Mayer



----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward J. Czilli" <ejczilli@umich.edu>
To: <latex2html@tug.org>
Sent: 05 August 2000 17:10
Subject: [l2h] can't find GS6.01


> I just downloaded the beta8 version of L2H and tried to configure it
> under Win98.  I cannot.  when I run config.bat, the configuration
> routine reports that it cannot find GS.  GS6.01 is indeed on my
> system in C:\Aladdin\GS6.01.  Any ideas why L2H cannot find GS?
>
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