[tex-live] Win32: xelatex -0.999.4 failure to process sample2e.tex

[Akira Kakuto]

Hi Jonathan,

> > On 2 Aug 2008, at 6:35 PM, George N. White III wrote:
> > 
> > > On my Win32/wine even xetex story fails:
> > >
> > > C:\Testing>xetex story
> > > This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.4 (Web2C 7.5.7)
> > > %&-line parsing enabled.
> > > entering extended mode
> > > (c:/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/story.tex
> > > ! Emergency stop.
> > > <recently read> O
> > >
> > > l.7 O
> > >     nce upon a time, in a distant
> > > No pages of output.
> > > Transcript written on story.log.
> > >
> > 
> > What does the story.log file show?
> > 
> > Akira, could there have been some kind of problem with the W32 build?  
> > The latest code seems to run fine elsewhere, and I can't see why the  
> > (tiny) changes in 0.999.4 might have introduced this issue.
> 
> On windows XP, both of "xetex story" and "xelatex sample2e"
> run fine. However on Vista, both of them sometimes succeed
> and sometimes fail with access violation (weird).
> I'll investigate the problem.

It was necessary to update "dll caller" xetex.exe etc.,
since xetex.lib is largely different from the very old one,
which I was using. I think the problem is not related to
the latest update. I'm not aware of the problem, since I usually
work on XP. Anyway, xetex is now running fine on both of XP and Vista.
So I hope it will also work on wine.
New one will be in svn probably tomorrow.

Thanks,
Akira