[tex-live] install-tl vs win7 64-bit

[Lars Madsen]

It is compiled? Isn't it just grapped from some homepage?

/Lars Madsen
Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf


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From: Zdenek Wagner [zdenek.wagner at gmail.com]
Sent: 19 October 2012 15:01
To: Lars Madsen
Cc: tex-live at tug.org
Subject: Re: [tex-live] install-tl vs win7 64-bit

2012/10/19 Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>:
> In an earlier thread I mentioned some observations about the "perl stopped working" problem with install-tl.bat on win 7 64-bit.
>
> I've now finally got my new office computer and now have a virtual win 7 64-bit to run tests on
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> One really strange observation: On line 330 in install-tl
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> - if I just add a blank line (using emacs 24.2 for windows) after this line, then perl no longer crash! wtf!?
> - if the blank line is removed again, perl crash
>
I remember similar strange problems when the program was compiled by a
buggy compiler. My program behaved similar way if it was compiled by
Borland C++ (about 20 years ago) but worked fine after compilation by
IBM C++. Maybe perl.exe was compiled by bad compiler, it may be useful
to try to recompile it by another compiler. I do not know...

> if I add
>
> my $foo = 1;
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> on a line after $^W=1; in install-menu-wizard.pl, then perl works
>
> if I only write
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> my $foo;
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> then it crashes
>
> If the requiring of 'trans.pl' is replaced with
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> sub __ ($@) { return 'foo'; }
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> then the crash persists, so it does not seem that trans.pl is the culprit
>
>
> Any ideas as to what we should test?
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> /Lars Madsen
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf
>
>



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