epstopdf issues under cygwin

Alois Steindl Alois.Steindl at tuwien.ac.at
Fri Sep 15 17:46:50 CEST 2023


Just an partial answer to my own question:
I found, that in the new epstopdf.pl script there is a check, if 
kpsewhich can be found in the PATH.
On line 545 it reads
for my $dir (split ($on_windows_or_cygwin ? ";" : ":", $ENV{"PATH"})) {

Since the path separator in cygwin is ":", split returns the whole path 
and cannot find kpsewhich there. If I replace $on_windows_or_cygwin by 
$on_windows, the program works nicely.

With kind regards
Alois

Am 15.09.2023 um 16:30 schrieb Alois Steindl:
>
> Hello,
>
> since a few days epstopdf isn't working anymore when called from 
> cygwin's bash shell. It works properly from Windows' cmd shell and 
> also from texlive 2022.
>
> Perl (the one in the texlive distro and also that from cygwin) claims, 
> that it cannot find kpsewhich anywhere in the path. I guess that has 
> to do with the different naming conventions for directories in and out 
> of cygwin, /cygdrive/e/texlive  vs. e:\texlive.
>
> Not a great matter, I can produce the pdf graphics; but it is nasty 
> and I am wondering, what was changed shortly ago.
>
> With kind regards
>
> Alois
>
>
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