[XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 12:34:05 CEST 2011


2011/10/20 Petr Tomasek <tomasek at etf.cuni.cz>:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 03:14:56PM +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>> Am Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:43:57 -0700 schrieb Chris Travers:
>>
>> > This has all been very helpful.  At least I have things narrowed down
>> > a bit here:
>> >
>> >
>> > # fmtutil-sys --byfmt xelatex
>> >
>>
>> > ! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!.
>> > l.545 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!}
>>
>> >
>> > Any idea of what I do about this?
>>
>> The best is to get and install a new TeXLive 2011 with newer latex
>> sources. You can also try to fool latex by changing your pc date.
>
> No, it is actually the worst thing to do. Most Linux distributions have their
> own packaging system and using alien blob (like the TeXLive) has all
> the disadvantages it can: possbily breaking compatibility if some system
> library is updated, not upgrading this blob using system tools if
> securty vulnerabilities are found can lead to serious security problems, etc...
>
That's why TL is linked statically with the exception of tools
dependent on fontconfig (xetex, luatex, xdvipdfmx).

> That's why I always compiled XeTeX from the SVN, but even that is broken since
> about 2 years :-/
>
I have only a problem with Nafees fonts, xdvipdfmx cannot find them in
CentOS 4 and 5 while everything works fine in Fedora 13. I tried with
TL 2008, 2009, 20010 and 2011, the result is the same and even
Khaled's advices did not help me to make it work.

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