[tex-live] Cygwin: Problems running scripts depending on Perl, though Perl is installed (via Cygwin pkg mngr)

[Ken Brown]

On 11/2/2018 10:25 AM, Alexander Grahn wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> 
> I don't seem able to run scripts that depend on Perl in TeXLive-2018
> for Cygwin. (I installed vanilla TeXLive-2018 separately.)
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Kind regards.
> 
> 
> E. g.:
> 
>    grahn@*******1 /cygdrive/y/bin/texlivecurrent
>    $ ./install-tl --print-arch
>    /usr/bin/env: ‘perl’: No such file or directory
>    
>    grahn@*******1 /cygdrive/y/bin/texlivecurrent
>    $ perl -v
>    
>    This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 2 (v5.26.2) built for x86_64-cygwin-threads-multi

Sorry, but I can't reproduce that on my 64-bit Cygwin system:

/tmp/install-tl-20181102
$ ./install-tl --print-arch
x86_64-cygwin

/tmp/install-tl-20181102
$ perl -v

This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 2 (v5.26.2) built for 
x86_64-cygwin-threads-multi

Ken