[tex-live] Building TeXLive in Mac OS X 10.6

[Jjgod Jiang]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
> Here is Dick's approach for the binaries in the distribution:
>
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:50:37 -0700
> From: Richard Koch <koch at math.uoregon.edu>
> To: karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
> Subject: Re: [gzjjgod at gmail.com: [tex-live] Building TeXLive in Mac OS X 10.6]
>
> Karl,
>
> My solution is to
>
>        ./Build --disable-xetex  --disable-xdv2pdf --disable-xdvipdfmx
>
> on Snow Leopard. Then I build regularly on Leopard (Leopard can also run
> 64 bit binaries, but the compiler by default produces 32 bit binaries),
> and move the missing 32-bit binaries to the mix.

Thanks for the tip. The reason I want to build XeTeX from source is that
I want to experiment with an OpenType feature which hasn't been implemented
in XeTeX yet. So I'll have to compile it several times myself to see if my
code works.

Building inside libs/icu/icu-4.4 with CFLAGS="-arch i386", CXXFLAGS="-arch i386"
and LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -headerpad_max_install_names", configure with
--enable-static, then copy the resulting static libraries to libs/icu-build/lib
works. I wonder why such flags are removed in libs/icu/configure.ac and
libs/icu/Makefile.am, however.

- Jiang