[tex-live] Compile fails on Mac OS X Server 10.3.9

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Sat Jul 21 00:24:20 CEST 2007


On 20 Jul 2007, at 3:07 pm, Akira Kakuto wrote:

>> Build hasn't had all that many significant updates AFAIK, at least
>> until the pdftex 1.40.4 update (which was the one that broke the
>> xetex build, because it modified the shared tex.ch change file).
>
> The changes in tex.ch by pdftex 1.40.4 were consistent with xetex  
> build.
> The inconsistency is due to my change (applied by Karl), which
> fixed a problem in the case of "tex %".

You're right. Thanks for clarifying this; I'd forgotten about that  
patch.

> BTW, the problem is not related to xetex, since xetex does not
> use Olaf's code for the file name.

I noticed that "xetex %" didn't lead to a crash, but had not  
carefully reviewed this yet. That explains it.

Thanks,

Jonathan


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