Re: bug in texi2dvi, on Windows/Msys2 it cannot find tex

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 14:31:32 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> > It works with Msys2 and cygwin for me, but breaks with MSYSTEM, where
> 
> What is MSYSTEM?  Is this the original msys?
> 
> > $ uname
> > MINGW32_NT-6.2
> > 
> > $ MSYSTEM=$OSTYPE uname
> > msys_NT-6.2
> > 
> > $ uname -a
> > MINGW32_NT-6.2 DESKTOP-G858KME 1.0.19(0.48/3/2) 2016-07-13 17:45 i686 Msys
> 
> Does the path separator need to be set to ; on this system?  Is anybody
> likely to be running texi2dvi from it?

It needs to be set to ; if one runs a MinGW port of a Unixy shell, and
to : if one runs an MSYS/Cygwin port of the shell.

> Are you sure that MSYSTEM is set up correctly?  Is the MSYSTEM envvar
> set to something else, or just not set at all?

By default it is unset.