[tex-live] .fmt problems, and luatex failure on Solaris Intel

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Mon Jun 27 23:39:54 CEST 2011


Hi Nelson,

            /usr/local/share/lib/tex/texlive-2011-05/bin/i386-solaris/fmtutil:
            bad substitution
    Perhaps there is a bash-ism in that script, which should instead be

Well, it had a shell function and variable with the same name.
Evidently Solaris sh rejects that.  I didn't check if that is an extra
feature of bash or a missing feature of Solaris sh.  Anyway, I renamed
the function and it seems to be ok now.

Thanks for the report, of course.

karl


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