[tlbuild] some executable inconsistencies
Ken Brown
kbrow1i at gmail.com
Wed Jul 14 02:33:01 CEST 2010
On 7/13/2010 8:10 PM, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> "KB" == Karl Berry writes:
>
> KB> i386-cygwin: (*) missing symlink: xasy ->
> KB> ../../texmf/asymptote/GUI/xasy.py
>
> KB> I'm not sure that X runs on Cygwin. Ken?
>
>> there are X11-dependent binaries in i386-cygwin, such as xdvi-xaw.exe.
>> so i assumed that cygwin is X11-aware.
>
> OTOH, it could be that i386-cygwin/asy.exe was built without X11
> support, in which case xasy won't work.
Yes, Cygwin supports X11. But i386-cygwin/asy.exe is the same as the
asy.exe built by John Bowman for the win32 texlive distribution, and it
seems to have been built without X11 support. (The executable does not
depend on any of the Cygwin X libraries.)
Ken
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