texdoctk is shipped with tetex. texdoctk requires Perl/Tk 8.x. It is known to work with perl-tk-800.015 by the author (see /usr/share/texmf/doc/texdoctk/README). After starting texdoctk and browsing the documentation items a special selection leads to a popup-message saying "No selection was made." # emerge -pv --emptytree | grep perl-tk is empty. # emerge -pv perl-tk selects dev-perl/perl-tk-804.027 Debugging the perl-script shows that the variable $docselect isn't set. This variable is given to the subroutine viewslc. $docselect is through a perl-tk call. For me it seems, that there is no return value from this perl-tk call. A downgrade to perl-tk-800.025-r1 works fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =app-text/tetex-2.0.2-r3 2. emerge =dev-perl/perl-tk-804.027 3. texdoctk & Actual Results: popupmessage "No selection was made." Expected Results: The specified viewer should have been opened with the selected documentation.
Sorry for the delay. I confirmed the problem. I added "tcltk" USE flag to tetex.eclass, and force <dev-perl/perl-tk-804.027. If you find a way to run perldoctk with perl-tk-804.027, that would be great. Thanks for the bug report.
Created attachment 39210 [details] patch to get texdoctk work with >=dev-perl/perl-tk-804.025 This patch works on my machine. Since i'm not a perl programmer, confirmation of correctness wouldn't be a bad thing ;-). Since Change 3060 of perl-tk (introduced with 804.025) the call $listbox->curselection returns always "a list containing the numerical indices of all of the elements in the listbox that are currently selected" (man Tk::Listbox, Change.log). The index is returned by the appropriate $listbox->index() call (man Tk::Listbox). Simply changing the call $tplist->curselection() into $tplist->index($tplist->curselection()) should do the job.
Thank you so much! This fixes the problem. I made a patch from yours and applied it to tetex.eclass. In doing so I don't need to patch app-text/ptex and app-text/cstex ;-) To mips team: please emerge dev-perl/perl-tk and app-text/tetex-2.0.2-r3, and test texdoctk. perl-tk needs to be keyworded on mips to add tcltk USE flag to tetex (mr_bones_ told me).
