[l2h] help with latex2html not working

[Marc Shapiro -- at work]

Shigeharu,

Thanks for the answer.

I made a copy of html.sty inside the same directory as the latex source file, so this is not the problem any more.

The problem seems more that the latex2html is not executing properly.  It spits out a whole lot of error messages (see transcript attached), and finally fails with this message:

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Fatal (syswait): exec " ./images.tex" failed: Permission denied
 at /usr/local/bin/latex2html line 3785.

Cannot read logfile './images.log': No such file or directory
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Looking at line 3785, even though I don’t know any perl, it’s pretty obvious that immediate cause of the error is that the $LATEX variable is empty.  Again, not knowing perl, I don’t understand how that happened.

Could it just be that I am using the wrong version of perl or something?  I have v5.18.2 and v5.24.0 available on my machine but both give the same error.

					Marc


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> Le 1 sept. 2016 à 13h57, Shigeharu TAKENO <shige at iee.niit.ac.jp> a écrit :
> 
> shige 09/01 2016
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> 
> Marc Shapiro wrote:
> | Then I updated MacTex to the current version (2016) and latex2html 
> | stopped working properly (the html.sty file couldn't be found).  I
> | tried to fix it by reverting to the old MacTex or reinstalling 
> | latex2html from homebrew, no improvement.  
> | I tried completely deleting MacTex and homebrew and reinstalling from
> | scratch, but things only got worse.  html.sty is still not found, and
> | latex2html fails with outlandish error messages (it seems the $LATEX
> | variable is not set).
> 
> I don't know Mac OS and MacTex well.
> Generally, to check whether html.sty is installed or not, to do
> 
>  kpsewhich html.sty
> 
> If this says nothing, html.sty is not installed.
> 
> html.sty and LaTeX style files for latex2html are included in the
> latex2html archive, and they may install to some path related to 
> your tex tree (ex. /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/html/). 
> If you change the default path of style files, you can specify 
> the appropriate path to '--with-texpath' configure option. 
> 
> +========================================================+
> Shigeharu TAKENO     NIigata Institute of Technology
>                       kashiwazaki,Niigata 945-1195 JAPAN
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