[tex-live] bug(?) of tlmgr

[Ruben Prins]

Well I have Windows XP, and no ActivePerl installed. The only Perl I have is
tlperl. And tlperl/bin is not in my search path, but still tlmgr seems to
find a perldoc (namely tlperl/bin/perldoc.bat). 

When I change Config.pm to use the correct `scriptdir' path to tlperl/bin
instead of the default value x:\perl\bin, `tlmgr --help' suddenly works.
(Removing tlperl/bin/perldoc.bat also solves the problem.)

So it definitely is Config.pm that's causing a problem with up perldoc. At
least with my installation.

Ruben

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: tex-live-bounces at tug.org [mailto:tex-live-bounces at tug.org] Namens
> Siep Kroonenberg
> Verzonden: zaterdag 20 december 2008 22:48
> Aan: tex-live at tug.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [tex-live] bug(?) of tlmgr
> 
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Ruben Prins wrote:
> > Karl,
> >
> > Unfortunately, adding this perldoc.bat makes the problem worse. Now
> *every*
> > Windows user will have the problem, not just those that have a secondary
> > Perl installation. The x: drive thingy is in tlperl/lib/Config.pm; which
> is
> > reset with every update of tlperl, so since my latest tlmgr update, --
> help
> > is hosed again:
> >
> > If I add
> >
> >        print $progpath . "\n";
> >
> > just before the system call to perldoc in tlperl/lib/Pod/Usage.pm, I get
> >
> > 	X:\perl\bin\perldoc
> >
> > So the fix is not a new perldoc shim, but a correct Config.pm (or a
> > different incantation of perldoc in pod2usage).
> >
> > Ruben
> >
> > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > > Van: tex-live-bounces at tug.org [mailto:tex-live-bounces at tug.org] Namens
> > > Karl Berry
> > > Verzonden: zaterdag 20 december 2008 3:02
> > > Aan: tex-live at tug.org; fnsteed at hotmail.com
> > > Onderwerp: Re: [tex-live] bug(?) of tlmgr
> > >
> > >
> > >     until an official fix comes in:
> > >
> > > We believe the best fix is to download the file
> > >   http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/bin/perldoc.bat
> > > and put it into the corresponding place in your install hierarchy,
> that
> > > is,
> > >   c:/whatever/texmf/tlpkg/tlperl/bin/perldoc.bat
> > >
> > > This should work around the problem of the weird x: drive thingy when
> > > ActivePerl (or whatever perl) is installed, since then the --help
> > > function will find our perldoc instead.
> > >
> > > Windows experts, please correct/elucidate.  I'll add the above to
> > > tug.org/texlive/windows.html when we know for sure.
> > >
> > > karl
> 
> I was completely unable to reproduce this problem under w2k. I
> installed ActiveState Perl before running the net installer; I let
> the installer add Perl to the searchpath and create file
> associations,  and I created a PERL5LIB environment variable and
> added .PL to PATHEXT for good measure.
> 
> The path in Config.pm shouldn't matter.
> 
> Maybe a superfluous remark: all the various programs in TeX Live are
> meant to be found via the searchpath. Under Windows, Perl scripts
> should never be called directly but always via a wrapper script on
> the searchpath.
> 
> Other than that, I don't know what the hell is going on.
> 
> --
> Siep Kroonenberg