tl2020 pretest begin

[khzimmer at posteo.de]

PS: BTW, most-likely the real reason is our environment variable:

    APPDATA=\\server-name\profile$\user-name\AppData\Roaming

I assume the install script looks for APPDATA to create that "TeX Live 
2020" item in the start menu programms?


Am 04.03.2020 09:06 schrieb khzimmer at posteo.de:
> Hi again,
> 
> PROBLEM FOUND :)
> 
> Hi again, found the error:
> 
> If we have our user profiles mapped onto a server, then installation 
> fails.
> If the profiles are local, all is fine.
> 
> Usually people would have C:\Users\user-name\
> but
> we have mapped that, so the path is  \\server-name\profile$\user-name\
> 
> I tested like this:
> 
> install-tl-20200303\tlpkg\tlperl\bin>perl.exe -e "if (! -d 'C:/') {
> print 'nicht gefunden' } else { print 'gefunden' }"
> gefunden
> 
> install-tl-20200303\tlpkg\tlperl\bin>perl.exe -e "if (! -d
> '//our-server-name/') { print 'nicht gefunden' } else { print
> 'gefunden' }"
> nicht gefunden
> 
> :)
> 
> Probably there's no way to change that?
> 
> And most-likely only a tiny fraction of users will have such strange 
> setup? :)
> 
> 
> Am 04.03.2020 08:38 schrieb khzimmer at posteo.de:
>> The error must be in TLUtils.pm, this function fails:
>> 
>> sub mkdirhier {
>>   my ($tree,$mode) = @_;
>>   my $ret = 1;
>>   my $reterror;
>> 
>>   if (-d "$tree") {
>>     $ret = 1;
>>   } else {
>>     my $subdir = "";
>>     # win32 is special as usual: we need to separate //servername/ 
>> part
>>     # from the UNC path, since (! -d //servername/) tests true
>>     $subdir = $& if ( win32() && ($tree =~ s!^//[^/]+/!!) );
>> 
>>     @dirs = split (/[\/\\]/, $tree);
>>     for my $dir (@dirs) {
>>       $subdir .= "$dir/";
>>       if (! -d $subdir) {
>>         if (defined $mode) {
>>           if (! mkdir ($subdir, $mode)) {
>>             $ret = 0;
>>             $reterror = "mkdir($subdir,$mode) failed: $!";
>>             last;
>>           }
>> (...)
>> 
>> The error states:   mkdir(//(PC name)/) failed for tree   (...)
>> so
>> this must have erroneously found FALSE:   if (! -d $subdir)
>> 
>> $subdir was my PC name with slashes, a text without spaces, like 
>> //testpc02/
>> 
>> Could somebody look into that problem on Windows 10?
>> Many of my users are already using Win 10, so if the problem remains
>> they will not be able to use TL 2020 with SPBuchsatz.
>> 
>> 
>> Am 04.03.2020 08:19 schrieb khzimmer at posteo.de:
>>> PS: My mail was incorrect, I had started the installation like this:
>>> 
>>> install-tl-windows.bat -repository 
>>> https://www.texlive.info/tlpretest/
>>> 
>>> on Windows 10, as normal user, not as admin.
>>> 
>>> (Previous installation of a released texlive, also on Win 10, had run
>>> without such error, using the same user account, in 2018.)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Am 04.03.2020 07:01 schrieb khzimmer at posteo.de:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> just wondering: Did somebody else test installing on Windows 10?
>>>> 
>>>> I forgot to mention, my test box runs on Win 10, so perhaps that's 
>>>> the
>>>> reason for the error?
>>>> 
>>>> I had started installation (as a user, not as admin) by
>>>> double-clicking the install exe file, and made no extra 
>>>> modifications
>>>> in the GUI.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Karl-Heinz
>>>> 
>>>> Am 03.03.2020 14:12 schrieb khzimmer at posteo.de:
>>>>> Hi Karl,
>>>>> 
>>>>> just tried installing this test version of tl2020 (after 
>>>>> uninstalling
>>>>> tl2018) in a windows machine here.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Installation ended with this output:
>>>>> 
>>>>> | mktexlsr: Done.
>>>>> | C:/Users/(user
>>>>> name)/texlife-2020-pretest/install-tl/install-tl-20200303/install-tl:
>>>>> mkdir(//(PC name)/) failed for tree \\(PC name)\profile$\(user
>>>>> name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs/TeX 
>>>>> Live
>>>>> 2020: No such file or directory at C:/Users/(user
>>>>> name)/texlife-2020-pretest/install-tl/install-tl-20200303/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm
>>>>> line 928.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is that a known error?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Also, I can start TeXworks, but when trying to run lualatex it does
>>>>> not succeed but it ends with this:
>>>>> 
>>>>> | Running the command C:\texlive\2020\bin\win32\fmtutil-user.exe
>>>>> | This is LuaTeX, Version 1.12.0 (TeX Live 2020/W32TeX)
>>>>> |  restricted system commands enabled.
>>>>> | I can't find the format file `lualatex.fmt'!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Karl-Heinz
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Am 03.03.2020 03:09 schrieb Karl Berry:
>>>>>> I think the pretest area is populated with the first build for TL 
>>>>>> 2020.
>>>>>> See https://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html as usual for details of 
>>>>>> how to
>>>>>> install (unchanged from previous years), and the list of notable 
>>>>>> changes
>>>>>> that I've got so far. Additions or corrections to the news are 
>>>>>> greatly
>>>>>> appreciated.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have not caught up with the CTAN releases over the past few 
>>>>>> days. I
>>>>>> expect all of those to be updated in the pretest over the next day 
>>>>>> or two.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The binaries for a few of the platforms (cygwin, armhf-linux,
>>>>>> i386-netbsd) have not yet been updated. I expect that to happen 
>>>>>> soon
>>>>>> also.  All others are current AFAIK.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> BTW, as discussed in the LaTeX newsletters and other places, 
>>>>>> lualatex in
>>>>>> the pretest now invokes the luahbtex engine, as lualatex-dev did 
>>>>>> for the
>>>>>> last couple months in TL19.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Please try it if you can. Better to test now than wait for 
>>>>>> breakage in
>>>>>> the official release. We have no dedicated testers or QA 
>>>>>> department, so
>>>>>> it's all up to us collectively as volunteers.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hope it flies,
>>>>>> Karl