<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear TeX fans,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>13/11/16<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">it is the first time I post anything on this list: I have used LaTeX for lectures, slides, conference papers, etc. for many years, I have a complete reference book, and always found answers in it or on the Web.</div><div class="">This time, I am quite stuck! One Japanese colleague has used XeTeX on her Mac and passed me her files to do some debugging concerning the bibliography.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am using TeXShop (latest version), I reinstalled MacLive, and then MacTeX-2016, which are supposed to come with XeTeX. No way.</div><div class="">The message is always the same. Trying to complie from TeXShop:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt</div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories:</div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">/opt/local/bin:/opt/local:/opt:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/texmf/web2c:/opt/texmf/web2c:/.:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c</div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">Trying to proceed...</div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">/opt/local/bin/mktexfmt: line 336: /texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or directory</div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.</div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or, trying xelatex directly:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; background-color: rgb(220, 254, 245);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">...Mutsuko-Cogalex-20161112-rvCB: xelatex CogCog-Alex-20161112-rvCB.tex</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; background-color: rgb(220, 254, 245);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories:</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; background-color: rgb(220, 254, 245);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">/opt/local/bin:/opt/local:/opt:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/texmf/web2c:/opt/texmf/web2c:/.:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; background-color: rgb(220, 254, 245);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Trying to proceed...</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; background-color: rgb(220, 254, 245);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996-patch1 (Web2C 7.5.6)</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; background-color: rgb(220, 254, 245);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; background-color: rgb(220, 254, 245);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories:</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; background-color: rgb(220, 254, 245);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">/opt/local/bin:/opt/local:/opt:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/texmf/web2c:/opt/texmf/web2c:/.:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; background-color: rgb(220, 254, 245);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Trying to proceed...</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; background-color: rgb(220, 254, 245);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">/opt/local/bin/mktexfmt: line 336: /texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or directory</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; background-color: rgb(220, 254, 245);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; background-color: rgb(220, 254, 245);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I then tried to reinstall separately XeTeX (version 0.9993). </div><div class="">The build (using build.sh) was quite successful, and created after a quite long process a directory named "build-x86_64" and apparently correctly built.</div><div class="">But I DON'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO FINISH THE INSTALL, which should place the files where expected.</div><div class="">The INSTALL file (inside build-x86_64) says somewhat cryptically:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">INSTALL for XeTeX Snapshots</font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">This distribution is essentially a stripped-down version of </font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">the TeXlive distribution with some additional libraries.</font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">All source code is in the directory source; the build.sh</font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">scripts will generate and populate a directory build.</font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> </font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">The actual code of XeTeX is in source/texk/web2c/xetexdir</font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">and its subdirectories.</font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">* build.sh builds a native xetex on your system</font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">* build.sh --ppc crosscompiles for osx-ppx from osx-intel</font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">* build.sh --mingw crosscompiles xetex for mingw32 on i686-linux</font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">XeTeX does not need a run-time pool file, and it locates</font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class="">texmf.cnf <b class="">based on its relative position in the TeX tree.</b></font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><b class="">Post-compilation installation should be a simple matter </b></font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><b class="">of copying the executable to a normal place for web2c </b></font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><b class="">binaries and generating the desired formats.</b></font></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What is "the executable"? The complete directory (transformed in an .app file -- a "package")? Some of the executables in the texk>kpathsea directory?</div><div class="">And what is "a normal place for web2c" ???</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I tried hard but did not find any tutorial or online discussion on that matter. Please help!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks in advance, </div><div class="">Xan</div></body></html>