Re: Test report for "make gnuplot-ja.pdf" on cygwin64

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

New modifications were carried out by Batian to config/mingw/Makefile etcs.

Now I could build gnuplot.pdf and gnuplot-ja.pdf on native windows using the MiKTeX and TeXLive on the cygwin64.

Thanks!

Tatsuro

> ----- Original Message -----

> On Wednesday, 5 January 2022 15:27:48 PST Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> > Am 05.01.2022 um 23:42 schrieb Ethan A Merritt:
> > > On Wednesday, 5 January 2022 13:26:09 PST Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> > 
> > >> * It doesn't work for out-of-source-tree builds, because of missing
> > >> $(srcdir)/ prefixes and a lack of TEXINPUTS addition of $(srcdir)
> > > 
> > > My understanding is that TEXINPUTS is disrecommended for luatex.
> > > Has that changed?
> > 
> > Dis-recommended or not, it simply doesn't work without it, because it 
> > cannot find title-ja.tex.  With the TEXINPUTS set, it works.
> 
> Maybe be some Windows quirk?
> 
> As noted in the commit message, this new rule for building the Japanese
> docs does not make any provision for building out of tree.
> It works fine for me as it is under linux, and Tatsuro Matsuoka reports
> that it works for him under Cygwin.
> I'm still tweaking the handling of cross-references, since the ad hoc
> rules in doc2tex were written assuming English text.
> 
> Prior to this, the method for processing the Japanese documentation
> was entirely outside of our build system.
> It used locale-customized packages that work with EUC-JP encoding.
> I never managed to get that mechanism working, so this was a fresh start.
> 
> If someone else has a need to extend it to other platforms, I leave it to them.  
> 
> 
> > There might be other methods to achieve this (copy title-ja.tex around, 
> > change the sed command to point to it with a path, ...), but that one 
> > seemed to fit in best with what we've been doing in the other cases.
> 
> 	cheers,
> 
> 		Ethan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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