[tex-live] tl09 release status: coming up

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2009/10/10 Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
> [follow-up]
>
> I have iteratively removed each element from the manifest
> file, ending up with a completely empty one, and at no
> stage was I able to avoid the "Access is denied" message.
> Thus it is merely the /presence/ of the manifest file
> (together with the aberrant permissions) that is sufficient
> to trigger this behaviour.  Does anyone have the access
> to the Microsoft toolkit that would allow the manifest file
> to be merged with the .exe ?  It would be interesting to
> learn if that eliminated the problem.

What are the permissions for perl.exe vs. perl.exe.manifest? I suspect
that they don't match and that this is the root of the problem.

Cheers,

Tomek