[tex-live] minor issues with installer

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Mojca,

On Do, 31 Jul 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> I first tried to use ./tl-portable (from SVN repository) and run
>     texexec somefile

Cannot comment on that, Siep is the master of tl-portable.

> OK, so I thought I would reinstall TL from SVN.

Reinstallation from svn is currently broken, I am updating the tlpdb now
and commit it in a few minutes. Then it should work again.

> Can't call method "depends" on an undefined value at ./install-tl line
> 620, <TMP> line 103757.

That is the bug I was talking about. I also made some changes to the
installer so that it continues over missing packages ...

> > ./install-tl -gui
> Platform: universal-darwin => 'universal binaries for MacOSX/Darwin'
> Distribution: net  (downloading)
> Using URL: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev
> Directory for temporary files: '/tmp'
> Installer directory: '.'
> Loading http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
> couldn't connect to display ":0" at
> /Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Tk/MainWindow.pm line
> 55.
> Tk::MainWindow->new() at tlpkg/installer/install-menu-perltk.pl line 233

That is strange. THe installer *tests* whether it can load the Tk
modules. I would have expected that loading the Tk module will break
when there is no X running, but of course that is wrong. 

> OK, it's my fault, but can someone maybe add a note "you need to run
> X11 in order to be able to use x11"? (Minor, unimportant issue, but it
> would be nice to document it somewhere.)

All these errors are not from us, but from the Tk library. I don't know
if I can catch them ... or better, I know, but I don't want to do that
now, too late. Maybe I send you a test installer ...

> Surprise, surprise! It works, but I get approximately 800 x 100
> window. I didn't really measure it, but it used to work before Taco
> started complaining about too big size. Norbert?

800x100?? Darwin is *really* strange. It is currently working on win32
and unix, so why the hell is Darwin again different. At the end it is X.
Maybe just Tk is hosed on Darwin?

Best wishes

Norbert

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