Unix install script fails on Mac

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 01:03:35PM -0700, Adam R. Maxwell via tex-live wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Jun 30, 2019, at 08:51 , Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Dick
> > 
> >> ... if I omit sudo. Then the installer works, even with the gui.
> > 
> > Then this might be an Tcl installation issue, or sudo versus X/Cocoa
> > access issue where I have no idea about ...
> 
> If it's just the Tcl installer, that makes more sense. I'd guess it's
> an sudo/environment issue, wherein su or sudo -s don't have TMPDIR.
> 
> $ sudo su -l
> root# echo $TMPDIR
> 
> root# env
> TERM=xterm-256color
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> USER=root
> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/opt/X11/bin
> PWD=/var/root
> SHLVL=1
> HOME=/var/root
> _=/usr/bin/env
> 
> If that guess is correct, you could try 
> sudo -s
> export TMPDIR=/tmp
> ./install-blah-blah

or

sudo env TMPDIR=/tmp perl install-tl ...

The fix in install-tl-gui.tcl is totally trivial and I'll probably
commit a fix tomorrow.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg