[tex-live] Problems using Asymptote on Cygwin [TL2009]

[Ken Brown]

On 4/20/2010 6:43 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> On Cygwin (TL2009 for i386-cygwin), I have tried what suggested by
> user's manual: texmf/doc/asymptote/asymptote.pdf at page 82:
>
> $ latex latexusage
> $ asy latexusage
>
> Here 'asy' seems to hang (40%-50% of CPU) and soon I find a
> 'pdftex.exe.stackdump' file, which is not good...
>
> Besides this, Asymptote creates an '.asy' directory in 'C:/Documents and
> Settings/user' instead that in /home/user, as it should be on Cygwin...
> It looks as if it is using USERPROFILE (a typical 'Windows native'
> environment variable) instead of HOME (which is used in an unix-like
> environment as Cygwin).
>
> Are we sure that the Asymptote binaries shipped with TL2009 Cygwin
> binaries are not mixing Cygwin with Windows native (Mingw!?, perhaps!)?

The asymptote binary shipped with the TL2009 Cygwin binaries is 
identical with the native Windows binary.  I never succeeded in doing a 
proper Cygwin build.  Maybe I'll try again for TL2010, but it will be a 
while before I can get to this.

Ken