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

[Norbert Preining]

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.

Best wishes

Norbert

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