[tex-live] epstopdf on cygwin
Ken Brown
kbrown at cornell.edu
Mon Nov 17 16:09:00 CET 2008
The program 'epstopdf' fails on cygwin for users who have gs in their
path but not gswin32c. My personal workaround is simply to comment out
the line
$GS = "gswin32c" if $^O =~ /cygwin/;
in epstopdf.pl. But I think the "right thing" for the script to do
would be to first check for gs in the path, and only try gswin32c if gs
isn't found. After all, cygwin's purpose is to provide a linux-like
environment for windows users. So it's reasonable to expect that cygwin
users might have /usr/bin/gs in their path but not gswin32c.
Ken
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