Re: how to run makeinfo in a subprocess on Windows?

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
>> I suspect the problem is that "makeinfo" is actually a perl script, and
>> it has "#! /usr/bin/perl" on the first line. On Debian, the lower-level
>> system call that actually starts the process apparently knows how to
>> handle that; it starts perl, and passes it "makeinfo" and the other args.
>
> Where did you get the Windows binary Texinfo distribution?  

>From mingw64.

>> However, on Windows that doesn't happen. I suspect if I was running the
>> mingw64 version of Emacs, it would work. The emacs I'm running is built
>> using mingw64 tools, but it uses the native Windows OS, not the
>> mingw64 layer.
>
> There's a terminology problem here.  MinGW64 executables are native
> Windows executables, so the Emacs you are running _is_ "the mingw64
> version of Emacs".  The non-native executables provided by MSYS2 are
> called "MSYS2 executables", 

Ok, thanks. So the makeinfo I have is an msys2 executable.

> The official upstream Texinfo tarball includes makeinfo.bat, 

Thanks, I'll install that.

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