Re: /dev/stderr on cygwin

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

"Chris Jackson" <address@hidden> writes:

> Just having fun trying to build the current development version 1.7.21 on
> Cygwin. I've managed to compile it now, after a few tweaks (e.g. install
> complained that /usr/local/share/omf did not exist.  Also this time,
> configure could locate python2.2.dll, when it couldn't when I tried to build
> 1.7.20)

That must be fun.  Note that the releases that I make for Cygwin are
cross-compiled on GNU/Linux.  You'll probably need to do quite some
work to build the pfa fonts, for example.

Why do you need 1.7.x?

> Now it's running. The problem is that ly2dvi wants to write to /dev/stderr
> when running latex, and complains that it does not exist.  It doesn't exist
> as a regular file, but rather seems to be a special feature of the bash
> shell (and possibly other shells), so I'm not sure how the python script
> might be changed.

That's strange.  What version of cygwin/python are you using?

Greetings,
Jan.


18:50:39 address@hidden:~
$ python
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Mar  5 2003, 18:45:01)
[GCC 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os,sys
>>> os.system ('uname -a')
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 Abbicci 1.3.20(0.73/3/2) 2003-02-08 12:10 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin
0
>>> sys.stderr.write ('foobar')
foobar>>>


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