[tex-live] texinfo not happy with texlive not producing log?

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> asks on Tue, 8 Nov 2016
01:36:29 +0100:

>> ...
>> My Gentoo system is definitely not up-to-date but I get
>> 
>>   $ emerge --search perl-tk
>>   *  dev-perl/perl-tk
>> 
>> instead of 
>> 
>>   dev-perl/Tk
>> 
>> Can anybody with a recent Gentoo release clarify?
>> ...

I have a Gentoo VM that I updated just this morning, and I get

% emerge --search perl-tk                                      
[ Results for search key : perl-tk ]
Searching...

[ Applications found : 0 ]

% cat /etc/os-release 
NAME=Gentoo
ID=gentoo
PRETTY_NAME="Gentoo/Linux"
ANSI_COLOR="1;32"
HOME_URL="http://www.gentoo.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/support.xml"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.gentoo.org/"

% uname -a
Linux XXXX 4.4.6-gentoo #1 SMP Mon Jun 6 11:22:34 MDT 2016 x86_64 Intel Core Processor (Haswell) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

% perl --version

This is perl 5, version 20, subversion 2 (v5.20.2) built for x86_64-linux
(with 27 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

The only repository that I have enabled is the default:

% cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf
[DEFAULT]
main-repo = gentoo

[gentoo]
location = /usr/portage
sync-type = rsync
sync-uri = rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
auto-sync = yes

# for daily squashfs snapshots
#sync-type = squashdelta
#sync-uri = mirror://gentoo/../snapshots/squashfs

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