[tex-live] Cygwin: Problems running scripts depending on Perl, though Perl is installed (via Cygwin pkg mngr)

[Ken Brown]

On 11/2/2018 12:50 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/2/2018 10:25 AM, Alexander Grahn wrote:
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> I don't seem able to run scripts that depend on Perl in TeXLive-2018
>> for Cygwin. (I installed vanilla TeXLive-2018 separately.)
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Kind regards.
>>
>>
>> E. g.:
>>
>>    grahn@*******1 /cygdrive/y/bin/texlivecurrent
>>    $ ./install-tl --print-arch
>>    /usr/bin/env: ‘perl’: No such file or directory
>>    grahn@*******1 /cygdrive/y/bin/texlivecurrent
>>    $ perl -v
>>    This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 2 (v5.26.2) built for 
>> x86_64-cygwin-threads-multi
> 
> Sorry, but I can't reproduce that on my 64-bit Cygwin system:
> 
> /tmp/install-tl-20181102
> $ ./install-tl --print-arch
> x86_64-cygwin
> 
> /tmp/install-tl-20181102
> $ perl -v
> 
> This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 2 (v5.26.2) built for 
> x86_64-cygwin-threads-multi
> 
> Ken

Are you by any chance working in an MSYS environment, so that /usr/bin/env is 
not Cygwin's /usr/bin/env?

Ken