[tex-live] scripts layout

Staszek Wawrykiewicz staw at gust.org.pl
Thu May 27 04:26:11 CEST 2004


I found that p4 depot has (perhaps) incorrect texmf[-dist]/scripts/ 
layout:
texmf/scripts/tetex/
texmf/scripts/tex4ht/
etc.

As I remember a discussion, it should be rather:
texmf/scripts/perl/tetex/
texmf/scripts/java/...
... etc.

Only the later layout works at least on Windows with the current binaries
(e.g. updmap). However interesting that for context scripts
texmf/scripts/context/perltk/
works well for Win32 and Linux (texexec.pl). For testing I removed
PERLINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/{perl,context}//
line from texmf.cnf for both systems as it seems obsolete now.
The question is: which layout is valid for consistence:
scripts/perl/context/ vs. scripts/context/perl/

For both systems kpsewhich --show-path=texmfscripts just expands to
texmf[...]/scripts// so perhaps only updmap.exe for win32 is too 
restrictive?

Another problem is with texdoctk: for Win32 Fabrice provides all needed
perl libraries, but standard Linux installation doesn't have eg. Tk.pm.
Having RH9.0 installed I cannot even find which package can have it :(

-- 
Staszek Wawrykiewicz
StaW at gust.org.pl




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