[tex-live] use of x86_64-darwin only in mactex 2010

Adam R. Maxwell amaxwell at mac.com
Sun Jun 20 19:39:08 CEST 2010


On Jun 20, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> There is a control panel in System Preferences where one can
> select/change which path is used and on 32-bin machines only
> /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin could be chosen
> 
> Sio, in principle one can select a directory containing tex
> executables and remove the other one - assuming that tlmgr (or TeXLive
> utility which is MacOSX frontend for tlmgr) would not complain too
> much.

At the very least, I think you should use `tlmgr arch remove`, but then
you will still have a stale option in the preference pane (if you used
MacTeX).

At present, on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6), you get universal-darwin 
and x86_64-darwin binaries.  The x86_64-darwin binaries will /only/ work
on 10.6.  On 10.5 and earlier OS releases, MacTeX installs only the 
universal-darwin arch.

If you think you need finer-grained control, you can use the install-tl
script to install TeX Live yourself, but any /usr/texbin path setup will
not work correctly.

I may add arch add/remove functionality to TeX Live Utility at some
point.  Correctly handling /usr/texbin is the main reason I haven't made
time to do that yet.

-- 
Adam



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