[OS X TeX] TeX Live 2005 Release Candidate, Intel binaries
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at mac.com
Wed Aug 24 12:42:17 CEST 2005
Le 24 août 05 à 11:06, Gerben Wierda a écrit :
> On Aug 24, 2005, at 10:12, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Le 24 août 05 à 01:21, Gerben Wierda a écrit :
>>
>>> - If you want to install on an Apple Intel Developer System,
>>> please update i-Installer first to 2.70 (also universal, and I
>>> have seen some potential problems with running the ppc version on
>>> an Intel system). Also available from the *EXPERIMENTAL* i-Directory
>>
>> Are you sure it's there? When looking at the i-Package in the
>> *EXPERIMENTAL* i-Directory, all I get is version 2.69.0 from 22
>> October 2004.
>
> OOPS. Sorry. Corrected. Must have been the time of day (01:21 in
> the morning, I should get some sleep at night. Given the fact that
> I can only do serious work at night it is a miracle that there are
> not more goof ups)
Installed both updates (i-Installer and TeX). Both working OK: I
reinstalled XeTeX afterwards, and compiled a XeLaTeX document with no
problem.
Regarding the dialogs during the install:
- After selecting All at the beginning of the process (so that both
PPC and i686 binaries are installed), you get a warning telling
either some foundation elements are missing, or non-functioning
binaries will be installed. That might confuse a casual user,
thinking he/she's done something wrong (but a casual user is not
supposed to use Expert mode and select TL2005, anyway).
- Also at the selection stage, regarding the programs you have 3
checkboxes:
TeXLive Programs 2005 i686
TeXLive Programs 2005 powerpc
TeXLive 2005 Programs powerpc+i686 extras
At first, I thought that the 3rd item was the concatenation of the
first 2 put together (all the more so since the end of "extras" was
outside the dialog "text area" and was cut out, leaving only "ext"
visible). I found the name of the corresponding files easier to
understand (telling the first two are binaries, and the third
libraries):
tl2005-bin-i686
tl2005-bin-powerpc
tl2005-lib-universal
A nice thing would be that when the user positions the pointer on an
item, the corresponding explanation from the Subprocess Output window
appears in one of these yellow framed boxes (I don't remember the
proper computer jargon for these boxes):
### tex.selector: Set "tl2005-bin-i686" description: "This set
contains the programs taken from TeXLive 2005. These are the
essential binaries you need to run TeX on your system."
### tex.selector: Set "tl2005-bin-powerpc" description: "This set
contains the programs taken from TeXLive 2005. These are the
essential binaries you need to run TeX on your system."
### tex.selector: Set "tl2005-lib-universal" description: "This set
contains extras taken from TeXLive 2005, namely the lib and include
directories. You only need this if you want to compile programs
against TeX-provided libraries."
Maybe that's already the case, I didn't think about trying at the
time. By the way, in the first 2 descriptions, it might be clearer to
replace "on your system" by something like "on an Intel-based Mac"
and "on a PowerPC-based Mac", respectively.
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