[tex-live] TeXLive 2014: xindy fails on windows

[Zdenek Wagner]

2014-06-16 12:28 GMT+02:00 Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de>:

> Am Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:13:36 +0900 schrieb Akira Kakuto:
>
> > Dear Ulrike,
> >
> >> G:\Z-Test>xindy test-utf8.idx
> >
> > I don't know xindy well, but
> > I think you should use
> > texindy test-utf8.idx
> > in that case.
>
> I tried with both: the scripts simply don't start. Here the output
> of texindy:
>

As a simple test, does it at least display the help by "xindy --help" or
"texindy --help"? It will show whether the problem is in starting the
script or in processing the parameters.

>
> G:\Z-Test>texindy test-utf8.idx
> D:\texlive\2014\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:652: command failed with
> exit code 255:
> perl.exe d:/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/texindy.pl
> test-utf8.idx
>
>
> I actually used xindy only to provoke some error messages.
>
> On miktex (with the personal installation I did during the
> discussion how to extend xindy to miktex) I get this error message
> from xindy:
>
> G:\Z-Test>xindy test-utf8.idx
>
> G:\Z-Test>perl D:\MiKTeX2.9\miktex\bin\\..\..\scripts\xindy\xindy.pl
> test-utf8.idx
> *** - XINDY:STARTUP: keyword arguments in
>        (:IDXSTYLE :RAWINDEX "4CTp4tvGXQ" :OUTPUT "test-utf8.ind"
> :LOGFILE
>         "nul")
>       should occur pairwise
>
>
> while texindy works fine.
>
> On texlive 2013 xindy gives an error too and then exists with exit
> code 1 (not 255 as in texlive 2014):
>
> G:\Z-Test>xindy test-utf8.idx
> *** - XINDY:STARTUP: keyword arguments in
>        (:IDXSTYLE :RAWINDEX "A4EniCLjXM" :OUTPUT ".\\test-utf8.ind"
> :LOGFILE
>         "nul")
>       should occur pairwise
>
> D:\texlive\2013\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:650: command failed with
> exit code 1:
> perl.exe d:/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/xindy.pl
> test-utf8.idx
>
> texindy work fine.
>
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
> http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
>
>
>


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