[tex-live] Win32: xelatex -0.999.4 failure to process sample2e.tex
Jonathan Kew
jonathan at jfkew.plus.com
Thu Aug 7 21:25:36 CEST 2008
Hi again - sorry for the noise, but I've just figured out what the
true problem is. I'll try to get a fix done tonight (it's a bit more
complex than we realized up till now). Hold off on rebuilding anything
for now....
JK
On 7 Aug 2008, at 8:02 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 7 Aug 2008, at 6:14 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> On 7 Aug 2008, at 5:42 PM, Norbert Preining wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>
>>> On Do, 07 Aug 2008, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>>> Aha, I think I see how this could be happening. I have made a one-
>>>> line
>>>> change to xetex.ch that I believe will solve the problem (without
>>>> requiring you to make additional patches for W32TeX or MikTeX).
>>>> Checked in to xetex svn and texlive svn as v0.999.5.
>>>
>>> Should other bin builders start the whole build script, too? Or is
>>> that
>>> a win-only problem? AFAIS from the discussion it occurs only on
>>> win, but
>>> *could* in principle happen everywhere, right?
>>
>> Yes, I believe it could.
>>
>> Let's see if we can get confirmation from Akira and/or Christian
>> that the change really does solve the problem. If so, it would be
>> good to update the xetex binary wherever possible, even though we
>> don't have reports of failure elsewhere.
>
> Sorry: on second thoughts, I think I patched the wrong place :-( and
> the problem is most likely NOT fixed yet. I'll look again....
>
> JK
>
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