[tex-live] supposedly missing Popup.pm

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at cybercomm.nl
Mon Jun 30 17:11:32 CEST 2008


On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> For anyone who might be able to debug the "missing" Popup.pm on Windows
> while Norbert is away, I put two old versions of install-tl.zip at
> 
> http://tug.org/~karl/install-tl-0607.zip
> http://tug.org/~karl/install-tl-0617.zip
> 
> (I found these on out of date CTAN mirrors, BTW.)
> 
> We don't know when the problem started exactly, but perhaps comparing
> these to the current install-tl.zip will glean something.  There has
> never been a Popup.pm, instead the Popup.al is supposed to get loaded.
> We don't know why it suddenly stopped being so.
> 
> If anyone can help, that would be great.
> 
> THanks,
> karl

I set PERL5LIB in install-tl.bat, and don't treat @INC specially for
Windows in install-tl itself. The problem went away, but it is
completely voodoo.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg


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