<div dir="ltr">On 21 October 2013 08:27, Peter Breitenlohner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peb@mppmu.mpg.de" target="_blank">peb@mppmu.mpg.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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(2) In TL the perl scripts are installed as *.pl under texmf-dist/scripts/<br>
and should start with '#! /use/bin/env perl'.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The scripts are invoked now as you wish. For the installation, you'll still need to do that. I can't find out about script extension support in autotools; you might want to ask <a href="mailto:bug-automake@gnu.org">bug-automake@gnu.org</a>, as this is a pretty general problem.<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> For Unix there are symlinks<br>
such as bindir/psmerge -> texmf-dist/scripts/psutils/<a href="http://psmerge.pl" target="_blank">psm<u></u>erge.pl</a> whereas for<br>
Windows bindir/psmerge.exe is the copy of a standard wrapper binary with the<br>
same effect.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think "make install" copes with systems that don't have symlinks.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
However, the most important<br>
point should be that the new version can be used as standalone package<br>
(under Unix and Windows), for TeXLive (Unix, compiled with MinGW, W32TeX),<br>
and for MikTeX, preferably with as few changes as possible.<br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This should all be fine, with the proviso, as I said in a previous email, that until gnulib/autotools support for all the features needed on Windows is complete, it will still need patching there.<br>
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