[tlbuild] 2014 builds

[Ken Brown]

On 3/20/2014 6:08 AM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Ken Brown wrote:
>
>> The build is fine on i386-cygwin (except for a failed test in seetexk,
>> which haven't had a chance to look into yet).  But the build of xetex
>> fails on x86_64-cygwin with errors like this:
>>
>> /home/kbrown/src/texlive/test64/Work/libs/harfbuzz/libharfbuzz.a(hb-ot-shape-complex-arabic.o):hb-ot-shape-complex-arabic.cc:(.rdata+0x140):
>>
>> relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC32 against
>> `.text$_ZNK2OT19SubstLookupSubTable8dispatchINS_25hb_get_coverage_context_tEEENT_8return_tEPS3_j'
>>
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> last week I have complied all of TL on i386-cygwin and x86_64-cygwin (this
> one without luajittex) with no problems other that having to wait for ages.
>
> Today I did a cross compilation linux -> {i386,x86_64}-cygwin including
> xetex.  This takes just a few minutes, but I can't run any tests.

Hi Peter,

It turns out that the problem was caused by a new release of Cygwin's 
binutils.  Reverting to the previous release, I was able to complete the 
build with no trouble except for the same failed seetexk test.  I'll 
look into that later.

Ken