[tex-live] (TexLive 2009 - win32) Trouble with makeglossaries

[George N. White III]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Christophe Faure <chfaure at gmail.com> wrote:

> in win32 folder the makeglossaries.exe pops up the following message :
>   tl-w32-wrapper.cmd: no appropriate script or program found: makeglossaries
>
> After digging a little, i've found that makeglossaries perl script is on the
> right folder [TL09]/texmf-dist/scripts/glossaries.
> The script file is without extension, if i rename it to
> ''makeglossaries.pl'' the wrapper command works !
>
> The file search mechanism or some part of the wrapper seems to be buggy.....
>
> As an alternative, it is possible to rename/ensure that perl script have pl
> extension it works for now but it could be beter to have this fixed...

Perl, ruby, etc. scripts are a weakness for the Win32 version of TL2009.
If you have access to suitable hardware, consider running TL2009 in a linux
VM to take advantage of the generic tools (perl, ghostscript, etc.) provided
by the linux distro.

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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia