[tex-live] display issue with "tlmgr help" ??

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi,

you can try the following command from your prompt:

perl -e 'print join(":", @INC), "\n";'

It will show you where perl looks for the modules. You can also insert the
print command to the perl script but make sure, that the script does not
manipulate the @INC array after printing its contents.


Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

2017-09-11 10:12 GMT+02:00 jfbu <jfbu at free.fr>:

>
> Le 11 sept. 2017 à 09:12, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> a écrit
> :
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > such I mess is not so unusual, I have it in linux too because several
> nonfree tools came with their own perl in nonstandard places. However, my
> standard perl does not see their files. The key point is the setting of
> PERL5LIB, it points to directories with my private additions, not to those
> nonstandard versions. It may happen that your incomplete installation sees
> files from another version which may cause problems. I would suggest to
> start with verification of environment settings, especially the variables
> related to perl.
>
> Hi Zdenek,
>
> it seems I have indeed a mess,
>
> $ which -a perl
> /opt/local/bin/perl
> /opt/miniconda3/bin/perl
> /usr/bin/perl
>
> $ which -a perldoc
> /opt/local/bin/perldoc
> /opt/miniconda3/bin/perldoc
> /usr/bin/perldoc
>
> $ echo $PERL5LIB
> /sw/lib/perl5:/sw/lib/perl5/darwin
>
> and the latter is a Fink location.
>
> Thus I have (at least) 3 user installs of Perl:
>
> 1) the MacPorts one in /opt/local
>
> 2) the Anaconda one in /opt/miniconda3
>
> 3) the Fink one in /sw/
>
> for the Fink I found
>
> /sw/bin/perl5.12.4
>
> which needs to be invoked under this name
>
> there are repertories
>
> /sw/lib/perl5/5.12.4 and /sw/lib/perl5/5.16.4
>
> the MacPorts has
>
> /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.24
>
>
> $ env | grep PERL
> PERL5LIB=/sw/lib/perl5:/sw/lib/perl5/darwin
> ac_cv_path_INTLTOOL_PERL=/usr/bin/perl
>
> in view of the above I tried
>
> $ export PERL5LIB="/opt/local/lib/perl5"
>
> $ tlmgr help
>
> no success
>
> then
>
> $ export PERL5LIB="/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.24"
>
> no success either
>
> $ unset PERL5LIB
>
> no success either
>
> Right now I have reached the stage where I know that
> "man perlrun" is where Perl env variables are documented,
>
> thus now I think I only have to learn Perl and then report back ;-)
>
> (be patient ... if I knew how to trace the binaries in use from
> "tlmgr help" I would be better-armed)
>
> Cheers
>
> Jean-François
>
> > 2017-09-11 8:42 GMT+02:00 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
> > Hi
> >
> > > I must debug better on my side, as all I observed was that normal
> > > behaviour for "tlmgr help" came from removing "/opt/local/bin" from
> > > PATH.
> >
> > I think you have a bit of a mess on your Mac ;-) Too many different
> > installations of perl, mixed with old stuff and new stuff.
> > (/opt/local/bin and /opt/miniconda3/ both are not standard perls
> > is my impression).
> >
> > > When I issue "man -d tlmgr" there is no difference
> > > in output in both contexts, but this is possibly completely
> > > irrelevant.
> >
> > Well, in this case you are reading the pre-made tlmgr.1 man page,
> > which might work because man uses its builtin or another groff.
> > One cannot know on this Macs ;-)
> >
> > Norbert
> >
> > --
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>
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