[tex-live] [pretest] xetex cannot handle pstricks

[Philipp Stephani]

Am 03.06.2011 09:42, schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
> On 2011-06-03 at 15:38:06 +0900, Vladimir Lomov wrote:
>
>   >  ** Reinhard Kotucha [2011-06-03 08:19:11 +0200]:
>   >
>   >  >  On 2011-06-03 at 12:31:08 +0900, Dohyun Kim wrote:
>   >
>   >  >>  It turns out that including eps files, say \includegraphics{golfer.eps},
>   >  >>  fails as well upon using TL11's xelatex.  So this issue seems to be
>   >  >>  related to new xdvipdfmx binary, not pstricks.  AFAIK pstricks has not
>   >  >>  been changed from that of TL10.
>   >
>   >  I tried to compile document to XDV format by xelatex (TL10 and TL11),
>   >  both work fine, but xdvipdfmx from TL11 doesn't work on either XDV.
>   >
>   >  >  It seems that the function which generates random strings is using
>   >  >  slashes (directory separators).  These are not allowed in file names:
>   >
>   >  >>  -sOutputFile='/var/folders/yy/yy1ikAmvHwyDgTq8YbvHJk+++TI/-Tmp-//dvipdfmx.P9ozl8fZ'
>   >
>   >  IMO, no it doesn't. On my system the -sOutputFile part is ok (in sense:
>   >  it uses single '/'), besides AFAIU double slashes won't hurt (many times
>   >  use '//' somewhere in path for 'coreutils' programs).
>
> The '//' is valid, of course.  What I'm actually wondering about is
> the large number of nested directories.

This is normal on OS X systems. The /var/.../-Tmp-/ stuff is just the 
temporary directory.