[tlbuild] On epstopdf (Cygwin)

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 19 June 2009 Angelo Graziosi wrote:

 > How was it concluded the 'story' about epstopdf.pl?
 > 
 > It seems that on Cygwin we need still to apply this patch:
 > 
 > ============================================================
 > --- epstopdf.pl.orig    2008-08-27 20:01:00.000000000 +0200
 > +++ epstopdf.pl 2008-11-17 17:16:38.843750000 +0100
 > @@ -96,7 +96,6 @@
 >   ### ghostscript command name
 >   my $GS = "gs";
 >   $GS = "gswin32c" if $^O eq 'MSWin32';
 > -$GS = "gswin32c" if $^O =~ /cygwin/;
 > 
 >   ### options
 >   $::opt_help=0;
 > ================
 > 
 > Right?

Right.  It's fixed now in the TeX Live repository.  Yes, Cygwin
provides "gs" and it's simply wrong to insist on "gswin32c".

Regards,
  Reinhard

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