A bug in install-tl-windows.bat

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at bitmuis.nl
Thu Apr 10 09:56:56 CEST 2025


On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 11:24:29PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:
> 
> On 08/04/2025 21:01, Siep Kroonenberg via tex-live wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 11:43:56AM +0200, Donatas Zigmantas wrote:
> > > I have been trying to install latest TeX Live on Windows 10, but it did not
> > > go, neither using install-tl-windows.exe
> > > <https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-windows.exe>
> > > nor running  install-tl-windows.bat . After some searching I found a bug in
> > > the  install-tl-windows.bat script on line
> > > 43     if  %ver_str:~10,1% EQU . (
> > This is a valid string comparison.
> 
> Well, perhaps I am misunderstanding how it is intended to be used, but it is
> not accepted by my 64-bit Windows 11 system.  What follows is a transcript
> of my test —
> 
> d:\Users\Primary user>set ver_str = .

There should be no spaces around '='.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg


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