[tex-live] texconfig behaviour (repost with subject line) (Modified by Gerben Wierda)

[Gerben Wierda]

My installer initially runs a "texconfig localsetup" on a non-terminal 
session inside the app, but the output becomes

### tex.configure: Started...
### tex.configure: Creating a local setup for texconfig...

+--------------------------- TeX Live setup utility 
---------------------------+
| Could not find default config file for pdftex (pdftexconfig.tex) 
(/usr/local/t
eTeX/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex).              
            |
| The program will exit now.                                        
            |

the call is

     system( "texconfig localsetup </dev/null");

but it tries to do a tcdialog anyway:

/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texconfig: line 1904: 
  3840 Segmentation fault      TERM=$DIALOG_TERM 
TERMINFO=$DIALOG_TERMINFO tcdialog --title "$version setup utility" 
${1+"$@"}
### tex.configure: Failed to run texconfig localsetup. Bailing out...

I think texconfig was supposed not to do a tcdialog when it is not 
attached to a terminal? This was changed a while ago if I recall 
correctly.

I am running the new binaries against an old-style tree setup. I do 
wonder why texconfig looks in share/texmf/tex but that is probably 
because of a texmf.cnf that has to be revised to work with the new 
binaries. The pdftexconfig.tex file is new to me, probably part of the 
changes of the last month.

Gerben