Re: Anyone got latex2html to work on cygwin?? Fatal (use l2hconf): l2hconf.pm

[bill BW <bill_bw_1000 at yahoo dot com>]

--- Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:30:11PM -0800, bill BW
> wrote:
> > 
> > I just tried the following:
> > 
> > - Uninstall perl from cygwin using cygwin
> setup.exe
> > - installed Active Perl 5.8 on window.
> > - use the cygutils perl.exe stub as described on
> >
> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/perl-contrib/index.html
> > - Now when I try latex2html, I get other errors,
> >   and when I try to build latex2html, I got
> zillions
> >   of errors. 
> > - So, I removed Active Perl, and the perl.exe
> stub,
> >   it is just not working, and reinstalled 
> >   cygwin perl again from setup.exe. And back to 
> >   debugging this perl to see what I can find.
> > 
> > If I know at least anyone out there got latex2html
> > working on cygwin, this will give me hope. 
>

 
> I got it working doing the following:
>

great !
 
> Installed Pierre's netpbm from
>
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/V1.1/netpbm-10.15-cygwin-1.3-bin.tar.gz
> following the instructions in the associated readme
> file in the same
> directory.
>

well, I also installed netpbm fine. This is what
I used:

netpbm-10.15-cygwin-1.3-bin.tar.gz

 
> Downloaded and tar xvfz'd latex2html from
>
http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~latex2ht/current/latex2html-2002-2-1.tar.gz
>

The above is the same latex2html as mine.
 
> Applied this patch:
> --- L2hos.pm.orig       2002-11-29
> 03:48:59.000000000 -0800
> +++ L2hos.pm    2004-12-17 00:31:29.636116800 -0800
> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
>         } elsif ($OS eq 'MacOS') {
>                 require L2hos::Mac;
>                 'L2hos::Mac'
> -       } elsif ($OS eq 'darwin') {
> +       } elsif ($OS eq 'darwin' || $OS eq 'cygwin')
> {
>                 require L2hos::Unix;
>                 'L2hos::Unix'
>         } elsif ($OS eq 'MSWin32') {
> 
> so it wouldn't think this was dos :(

Ok, the instructions on this web page:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/suvrit/work/l2h.html

says to replace 

"In the latex2html directory there is a file called 
 L2hos.pm
 Edit this file by replacing $^O with 'unix' "

I think what you did seems the same as this.

> 
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> 

Ok, so far the same as me.

> 
> Then tried: latex2html
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/small2e.tex
> 
> and it worked fine.
> 

strange. 

> I can't help but think something is messed up in
> your perl
> installation; did reinstalling help?  are you sure
> perl is finding
> /usr/bin/perl and /usr/bin/perl is the cygwin 5.8.5
> perl?
> 

Well, I simply use cygwin setup.exe to install perl,
all went well. I am not doing anything else.

> What did you do to fix the problem with configure
> not detecting cygwin?
>

I just followed the instruntions on the above
web site, and changed that one line to make
it think it is unix OS.

can you please email me your l2hos.pm to try? 

what version of cygwin do you have? I have the
latest and gratest, installed everything from
scratch. took 4 hrs to do. is your perl the same 
as mine?

$ perl --version

This is perl, v5.8.5 built for
cygwin-thread-multi-64int

Copyright 1987-2004, Larry Wall


thanks for your help.
 
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