[tex-live] TeXLive Perl + latexmk (windows)

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Tue Apr 13 00:17:10 CEST 2010


Lars Madsen wrote:
> Norbert Preining wrote:
>> On Mo, 12 Apr 2010, Lars Madsen wrote:
>>> Hi, the latexmk script needs the Digest perl package, which is 
>>> missing  in tlperl
>>
>> ??? I have to disagree, there is Digest in tlperl...
>>
>> Which digst method are you using? Currently we are shipping only the
>> MD5 dll ...
>>
> 
> not sure, latexmk on win 7 with a fully updated TL 09 just complained 
> that it could not find any Digest.pm at all
> 

just tested my laptop here at home, WinXP partition, TL 09 from last 
friday, no Digest.pm in tlperl here either

> 
>>> Rather unfortunate as I'm giving a talk tomorrow which include a 
>>> latexmk  demo
>>
>> Maybe not the best idea to test these things on the
>> day before ...
>>
>> You can install strawberry perl and use that instead for running latexmk.
>>
> 
> I just grapped Digest.pm from CPAN and added it to tlperl, works fine
> 
> 
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Norbert
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>> Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
>> JAIST, Japan            TU Wien, Austria           Debian TeX Task Force
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