[tlbuild] asymptote build

Ken Brown kbrow1i at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 22:58:15 CEST 2009


On 6/24/2009 4:17 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 23 June 2009 T T wrote:
> 
>  > I will soon move asy to its own subdir and place a .bat wrapper in
>  > bin/win32. What should i put in bin/i386-cygwin? Symlink?
> 
> Hi Tomek,
> cygwin is Unix, hence it's probably better to provide a shell script
> instead of a .bat wrapper.  The cygwin login shell is a modified bash.
> If you invoke a .bat file, bash calls cmd.exe, hence I think a .bat
> file is less efficient than a shell script.

The .bat wrapper is for win32.  Nothing needs to be done for cygwin. 
See my message earlier in the thread:

   http://tug.org/pipermail/tlbuild/2009q2/000912.html

Ken


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