[tex-live] display issue with "tlmgr help" ??

[Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda]

Hi Jean-François,

I have Perl 5.24.2 on my Fedora 26 machine with TeX Live 2017 (all updates) 
and I get the correct output.

Cheerio,

Paulo

(sorry for a potential HTML email, I am on mobile)


A 10 de setembro de 2017 6:15:00 PM, jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> escreveu:

> Hi Karl
>
>> [...]
>> I have no way to know which part is failing on your Mac.  You could look
>> at the code starting around line 466 in tlmgr.pl if you want to pursue
>> it.  --best, karl.
>
> the problem originates in the Perl which came with my MacPorts install
> (it puts it in /opt/local/bin/). And indeed I did this install around
> September 1st. On the desktop iMac where I saw again the problem,
> I had not yet activated the MacPorts binaries for TeX, so I had forgotten
> that I actually did the install back then.
>
> after deactivating this /opt/local/bin/
> location from my PATH, I observe correct output from tlmgr help
>
> the Perl giving good result is /opt/miniconda3/bin/perl which comes from
> my Anaconda install [1]
>
> [1] https://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/
>
> $ /opt/miniconda3/bin/perl --version
>
> This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for darwin-2level
>
> on the other hand, the Perl giving bad result is
>
> $ /opt/local/bin/perl --version
>
> This is perl 5, version 24, subversion 2 (v5.24.2) built for 
> darwin-thread-multi-2level
>
> The system one is only a bit older than the one from Anaconda install
>
> $ /usr/bin/perl --version
>
> This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 2 (v5.16.2) built for 
> darwin-thread-multi-2level
>
> It would be interesting to know if this Perl v5.24.2 induces problems with
> "tlmgr help" on other systems than my Mac OS X.
>
> Best,
>
> Jean-François
>
>