[XeTeX] Building on Intel Mac

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 27.11.2006 um 00:32 schrieb Bruno Voisin:

> Permission problem?
>
> build-xetex is creating the Work subdirectory by invoking bash on the
> script ./runConfigure.sh. Is bash your shell of choice?

Bruno,

whether the login shell is bash or tcsh makes no difference.

The sub directories

	Work/lib/freetype2
	Work/lib/icu-xetex
	Work/lib/libpng
	Work/lib/teckit
	Work/lib/xpdf
	Work/lib/zlib
	
	Work/texk/kpathsea
	Work/texk/web2c
	Work/texk/xdv2pdf

are not created by any shell script. They contain the XeTeX and  
xdv2pdf sources. Sources are not usually 'made,' they have to be  
written ('programmed') and often need a compilation. All configure  
does is to create the necessary Makefile's and a libtool script to  
build the binaries (programmes). Then the build-xetex script does cd  
into lib's sub directories and makes the default targets. They are  
prerequisites to xetex and xdv2pdf. After this it changes working  
directory to Work/texk/web2c and makes xetex there. The final step on  
Mac OS X is to cd to Work/texk/xdv2pdf to make xdv2pdf there.

Since make never was invoked with the -k option it finishes its duty  
when it comes to the first error. This does not prevent the build- 
xetex script to try to finally ls the PRODUCTS it could have built:  
Work/texk/web2c/xetex plus Work/texk/xdv2pdf/xdv2pdf and Work/texk/ 
xdv2pdf/T1Wrap on Darwin.

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   Pete

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