[tex-live] (TexLive 2009 - win32) Trouble with makeglossaries

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2009/11/17 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
> 2009/11/17 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
>> On Di, 17 Nov 2009, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>>> OS/2 port of teTeX uses a simple trick. It has a simple wrapper
>>> compiled as EXE and copied under a lot of names. When invoked it
>>> searches PATH for a file with the same name, parses its first line and
>>> then calls the appropriate interpreter. For instance, if I want t use
>>> epstopdf, the system finds epstopdf.exe, it then finds epstopdf, sees
>>> that it is a perl script and invokes it as perl epstopdf with the
>>> original command line arguments. Maybe the same method could be used
>>> in Windows.
>>
>> We do more or less the same, but do not parse the first line.
>>
>> Do you have the source code? Maybe Tomek can use something similar, that
>> if using the extension does not provide anything useful that could
>> be used.
>>
> I will try to find it. The source codes of all tools used for the OS/2
> port are somewhere available.

Thanks, but there is no need. I have already implemented #! line
parsing but we were in the freeze stage, so it didn't make it into the
release. But we might get rid of the batch wrappers, so I'm holding
off with any commits for now.

Cheers,

Tomek