[tlbuild] some executable inconsistencies

[Ken Brown]

On 7/13/2010 8:10 PM, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> "KB" == Karl Berry writes:
>
>   KB>      i386-cygwin: (*) missing symlink: xasy ->
>   KB>  ../../texmf/asymptote/GUI/xasy.py
>
>   KB>  I'm not sure that X runs on Cygwin.  Ken?
>
>> there are X11-dependent binaries in i386-cygwin, such as xdvi-xaw.exe.
>> so i assumed that cygwin is X11-aware.
>
> OTOH, it could be that i386-cygwin/asy.exe was built without X11
> support, in which case xasy won't work.

Yes, Cygwin supports X11.  But i386-cygwin/asy.exe is the same as the 
asy.exe built by John Bowman for the win32 texlive distribution, and it 
seems to have been built without X11 support.  (The executable does not 
depend on any of the Cygwin X libraries.)

Ken