From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: how to run makeinfo in a subprocess on Windows? 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274146 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Stephen Leake >> 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. -- -- Stephe