fix fix fix with long explanation

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@11929 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Master/bin/win32/tlmgr.bat b/Master/bin/win32/tlmgr.bat
index 4cd47bd4d4c..867cf3a68ac 100755
--- a/Master/bin/win32/tlmgr.bat
+++ b/Master/bin/win32/tlmgr.bat
@@ -8,7 +8,15 @@ setlocal
 rem TL installation root

 for %%P in ("%~dp0..\..") do set "tlroot=%%~fP"

 rem This shouldn't be necessary but without it 'tlmgr gui' complains

-path %TLdir%\tlpkg\installer;%path%

+rem Comment from Tomek:

+rem It is not about putting tlpkg\installer on the path, this is

+rem irrelevant. It's about making sure that cmd.exe is not found on the

+rem first element of the path.

+rem I looks like perl discards or somehow mishandles the very first of the

+rem path when it searches for cmd.exe. In fact, even this is enough to fix it:

+path ;%path%

+rem Alternatively we can activate the original way by adding the installer dir

+rem path %TLdir%\tlpkg\installer;%path%

 

 rem Start tlmgr

 set PERL5LIB=%tlroot%\tlpkg\tlperl\lib