[tex-k] Patch for a bug in mktexlsr.pl

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Martin, hi Reinhard,

>  > if my report is wrong: https://bugs.gentoo.org/934975

Thanks

>  >  	texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/mktexlsr
>  >  	texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/mktexlsr.pl
>  > 
>  > but the later symlink will overwrite the former symlink
>  > (as the appendix is removed for the symlink).

Ouch. The second one should be removed. It should NOT be linked, but the
file MUST remain in scripts/texlive/mktexlsr.pl!

> The Perl script is needed on Windows only because we can't execute
> shell scripts there.  And it's well maintained and tested (maybe not
> by Norbert because he's on Unix for reasons I understand very well).
> At least no Windows user complained so far.

@Reinhard, this is incorrect, and your comment is also incorrect, please
be more careful what you state.

fmtutil.pl use mktexlsr, it starts with

  unshift(@INC, "$TEXMFROOT/tlpkg", "$TEXMFROOT/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive");
  require "mktexlsr.pl";


> A symlink to the Perl script mktexlsr.pl should *never* be created on
> any Unix system.

That is correct. But the file MUST remain on the system since it is used
by fmtutil

Best regards

Norbert

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