[tex-live] Win32: xelatex -0.999.4 failure to process sample2e.tex

[George N. White III]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp> wrote:
> Hi George,
>
>> After today's (Aug. 3rd) "tlmgr update --all", xetex story is working
>> under wine:
>>
>> $ ls -l /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/win32/xetex.*
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 gwhite bod 2420736 2008-08-01 12:47
>> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/win32/xetex.dll
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 gwhite bod    2560 2008-05-12 17:34
>> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/win32/xetex.exe
>
> Updated files are not yet checked in.
> I believe it will become more stable soon.

After today's update, xetex is failing again (using wine on Fedora 8):

C:\Testing>xetex story
This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.4 (Web2C 7.5.7)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(c:/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/story.tex
! Emergency stop.
<recently read> O

l.7 O
     nce upon a time, in a distant
No pages of output.
Transcript written on story.log.

$ ls -l /Data/opt/tex/texlive/2008/bin/win32/xetex*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gwhite bod 2420736 2008-08-03 11:13
/Data/opt/tex/texlive/2008/bin/win32/xetex.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gwhite bod    3584 2008-08-03 11:13
/Data/opt/tex/texlive/2008/bin/win32/xetex.exe


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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia