<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Ettore,<div><br></div><div>I agree with everything you wrote below. I've quoted key points:</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 17, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <<a href="mailto:ealdrov@mail.math.fsu.edu">ealdrov@mail.math.fsu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Does MacTeX check for /usr/X11/bin/X?<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite">What Apple installs is a stub, as far as I know, and it has been for a while—mountain lion, perhaps? This should have happened with earlier upgrades, say to Mavericks. Does the Apple installer remove Xquartz? Xquartz lives in /opt but it installs symlinks under /usr.</blockquote></div><div><br></div>—Ettore<div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><font face="Osaka-Mono">Ettore Aldrovandi</font></div><div><font face="Osaka-Mono">Department of Mathematics, Florida State University</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>As you say, this change occurred earlier, maybe with Mountain Lion. I installed Yosemite on</div><div>a blank disk, so I don't know if it removes XQuartz.</div><div><br></div><div>Since Apple replaces X11 with a stub, MacTeX cannot test whether X11 is present by looking for the</div><div>X11 binary directly. I remember falling into that trap, and catching myself before releasing anything.</div><div>I just looked at the code in postinstall, and it is sort of baroque. I threw everything including</div><div>the kitchen sink at the problem. According to the current code, gs --> gs-X11 only if the processor is</div><div>Intel and either</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> /usr/X11R6/bin/X exists and is not a link</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>OR</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>/usr/X11R6/bin/X exists and is a link, but the name of the linked file is not "xstub"</div><div><br></div><div>Dick Koch</div><div><br></div><br></div></body></html>