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


On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, bill BW wrote:

> --- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@XX.XXX.XXX> wrote:

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, bill BW wrote:
> >
> > > $ latex2html foo.tex
> > > Fatal (use l2hconf): l2hconf.pm did not return a true value at (eval 7) line 2.
> > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 7) line 2.
> > >
> > > I look at the file l2hconf.pm, and I
> > > see this as first 3 lines:
> > >
> > > #!/perl
> > > # LaTeX2HTML l2hconf.pm
> > > # $Id: l2hconf.pin,v 1.17 2002/06/15 22:46:36 RRM Exp $
> >
> > You should look at the whole file, to see what the
> > last returned value is.
> > The last line of the file is usually "1;".
>
> Yes it is. I did not touch the file l2hconf.m
>
> > > more information:
> > >
> > > $ which perl
> > > /usr/bin/perl
> > >
> > > $ perl --version
> > > This is perl, v5.8.5 built for
> > > cygwin-thread-multi-64int
> > >
> > > Why does it say '64int' there? my machine is
> > > 32 bit P4.
> >
> > Try it first with the Cygwin version.  Fixing
> > l2hconf.pm should help.
>
> but what is wrong with l2hconf.pm?
>
> This is what I tried now:
> I looked at latex2html to see where it calls
> l2hconf.pm, it is at lines 120:130
>
> ------ from latex2html ------
>
> # Local configuration, read at runtime
> # Read the $CONFIG_FILE  (usually l2hconf.pm )
> if($ENV{'L2HCONFIG'}) {
>   require $ENV{'L2HCONFIG'} ||
>     die "Fatal (require $ENV{'L2HCONFIG'}): $!";
> } else {
>   eval 'use l2hconf';
>   if($@) {
>     die "Fatal (use l2hconf): $@\n";
>   }
> }
>
> --------- end latex2html cut ---------
>
> so to test this, from cygwin shell I typed just the command that calls
> l2hconf as follows:
>
> ---- start test -----
>
> $ perl
> eval 'use l2hconf';
> if($@) {
>   die "Fatal (use l2hconf): $@\n";
> }
>
> Fatal (use l2hconf): Undefined subroutine &main::ignore_commands called
> at l2hconf.pm line 1216.
>
> Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 2.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 2.
>
> ----- end test --------
>
> Ok, so the real problem is really at line 1216 in l2hconf.pm. so I went
> to line 1216 there, and this is the content starting from line 1216:
>
> ---- line 1216 to line 1217
>
> &::ignore_commands( <<_IGNORED_CMDS_);
> htmlrule # [] # \$_ = join('',"<BR><HR>",\$_)
>
> ----- end lines 1216 to line 1217 ----
>
> I can include the whole file if needed, but this is out of the box, did
> not touch it, and here is the text of the this file on this URL, someone
> posted it for a problem:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/latex2html@tug.org/msg00372.html
>
> so, any ideas what to do now? I am very bad at perl, having writting may
> be 10 lines in perl all of my life. and this thing should work as is,
> unless something wrong with perl build on cygwin?
>
> any more information I can provide on this?

AFAICS, ignore_commands is defined in the latex2html script itself.
There's probably another reason for this problem.

Is the file l2hconf.pm readable?  Is it in the default install directory
(/usr/share/latex2html)?  If not, is the directory that contains it in
perl's include path?

Try copying l2hconf.pm to the current directory, and putting print
statements in it to track the progress of its loading (you'll need to set
L2HCONFIG to "./l2hconf.pm").  Don't forget to set $|=0 in the beginning
to turn off buffering.
HTH,
	Igor
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