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


ops, typo:

in the text below, instead of

> I changed the first line to 
> #!/usr/local/perl
 
I meant to write

> I changed the first line to 
> #!/usr/bin/perl


thanks,
Bill



--- bill BW <bill_bw_1000@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> For the last 6 hrs I have been fighting with
> latex2html and cygwin to get latex2html to
> work, but I give up.
> 
> Has anyone got latex2html to work on cygwin?
> 
> This is what I have
> 1. Latex cygwin FULL installation. 
> 
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 me 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34
> i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
> 
> cygwins install just fine, all working well.
> 
> 2. Get the netpbm programs, installed no problem
> 
> 3. downloaded latex2html: latex2html-2002-2-1.tar
> latest version of late2html. untar, 
> 
> In the latex2html directory there is a file called 
> L2hos.pm , Edit this file by replacing $^O with
> 'unix'
> 
> 
> 4. added everything to path, and for latex2html did
> 
> ./configure, make, make install 
> 
> all went with NO errors !!
> 
> 5. But now everytime I try the late2html command
> on a .tex file, I get the error
> 
> $ 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
> $
> 
> Ok, so line 2 is commented out. so what is
> wrong?
> 
> I changed the first line to 
> #!/usr/local/perl
> 
> but it did not make any difference.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I read on the net that latex2html might not
> work when using cygwin supplied perl, and I need
> to install windows perl, such as active Perl,
> and have that perl stub in cygwin tools, that 
> calls windows perl.exe instead. may be I should try 
> that?
> 
> I'll supply more information if needed.
> 
> thanks,
> Bill
> 
> 
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