[tex-live] xetex: broken pdf inclusion

[David Kastrup]

"Martin Schröder" <martin at oneiros.de> writes:

> 2008/7/17 Thanh Han The <hanthethanh at gmail.com>:
>> perhaps Martin can explain why -DDISABLE_OUTLINE was added
>> to Makefile's (since version 1.40.6)?
>
> If you look at the XPDF code and my changes, you'll notice that
> DISABLE_OUTLINE removes code not needed by pdfTeX. Less code, fewer
> errors, smaller binary. :-)

Well, the "fewer errors" theory so far has not really been convincing
regarding the build process.  And errors in dead code paths are not
particularly troublesome.  I have my doubts that we'll be saving much in
binary size...  If there are significant savings, they will probably
occur because of smaller data structures.

What _might_ be a valid concern is if the dead code requires additional
dependencies or slows down the regular code paths because of unnecessary
checks and such.

Anyway, I don't consider it entirely unlikely that at some point of time
some TeX engine might offer features regarding whatever !DISABLE_OUTLINE
is about, and then the fun can start again...

Well, if that happens, we probably will know what's in the bush by then.
So there is probably no point in mixing up things again right now.

-- 
David Kastrup