[XeTeX] Building xetex from source

[Jonathan Kew]

On 14 Jun 2006, at 3:05 pm, William Adams wrote:
>>
>> A couple of questions: 1) Can I re-build and re-install at will,
>> without any preparatory work?
>
> Yes, but there's a difference to how the svn command should be  
> entered.
>
> I would think the command would be:
>
> svn update http://scripts.sil.org/svn-public/xetex/TRUNK xetex
>
> but when I enter that I get:
>
> Skipped 'http://scripts.sil.org/svn-public/xetex/TRUNK'
> At revision 276.
>
> Perhaps there's a bit of time which needs to pass for things to be
> updated?

No, that's not how you use svn update. You don't give it the URL,  
just the working-copy path that you want to update, so: "svn update / 
path/to/your/xetex". Or if you're currently in that directory, just  
"svn update".

JK