[tex-live] Xindy broken in TL2011 pretest?

[George N. White III]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Simon Spiegel <simon at simifilm.ch> wrote:

>
> On 07.06.2011, at 15:39, Joachim Schrod wrote:
>
>> Simon Spiegel wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I normally use the 64-bit version, but it doesn't make any difference.
>>
>> OK, so let's continue with the 64-bit Intel version, as it is the
>> simpler situation, with one xindy.mem file.
>>
>> What happens if you execute
>>
>>    /usr/texbin/xindy.run -M /usr/texbin/xindy.mem -E iso-8859-1
>>
>> There _should_ be a prompt
>>
>>    [1]>
>>
>> At the prompt enter xindy:*xindy-kernel-version* to check if it
>> knows at least its version number and then (quit) to exit again. To
>> wit:
>>
>>    [1]> xindy:*xindy-kernel-version*
>>    "3.0"
>>    [2]> (quit)
>>
>> Does this work?
>
> No, it doesn't. After
>
>   /usr/texbin/xindy.run -M /usr/texbin/xindy.mem -E iso-8859-1
>
> I only get
>
> Abort trap

Using tlpretest (universal-darwin installed via linux) on leopard I
get "Abort trap":

$ uname -rm
9.8.0 i386
$ which tex
/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin/tex
$ ls -l /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin/xindy.run
/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin/xindy-i386.mem
1848 -rw-r--r--  1 gwhite  bod   943707 May 28 17:31
/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin/xindy-i386.mem
7848 -rwxr-xr-x  1 gwhite  bod  4017928 May 28 17:31
/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin/xindy.run*
$ /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin/xindy.run -M
/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin/xindy-i386.mem -E
iso-8859-1
Abort trap

(gdb) run -M /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin/xindy-i386.mem
-E iso-8859-1
Starting program:
/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin/xindy.run -M
/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin/xindy-i386.mem -E
iso-8859-1
Reading symbols for shared libraries ++++. done

Program received signal EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION, Illegal instruction/operand.
[Switching to process 11984 thread 0x117]
0x91aa062e in __abort ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x91aa062e in __abort ()
#1  0x91aa068a in abort ()
#2  0x91a7d7df in internal_catch_exception_raise ()
#3  0x91a6a814 in _Xexception_raise ()
#4  0x91a6a6e7 in exc_server ()
#5  0x001118bc in ?? ()
#6  0x919e5155 in _pthread_start ()
#7  0x919e5012 in thread_start ()



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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
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