[OS X TeX] Xindy?

Simon Spiegel simon at simifilm.ch
Sat Jul 8 18:25:33 CEST 2006


On 08.07.2006, at 18:02, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 08.07.2006 um 15:36 schrieb Simon Spiegel:
>
>> ./minitests > minitests.out
>> make[3]: *** [check] Error 132
>> make[2]: *** [callback.h] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [xindy.run] Error 2
>> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
> For me compilation ends here:
>
> 	../../../ffcall/callback/trampoline_r/trampoline.c:354: error:  
> ‘vm_page_size’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> 	../../../ffcall/callback/trampoline_r/trampoline.c:354: error:  
> (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> 	../../../ffcall/callback/trampoline_r/trampoline.c:354: error: for  
> each function it appears in.)
> 	make[4]: *** [trampoline.lo] Error 1
>
> Could be a ``-DNeXT´´ works around it ...
>
> 	configure: * checks for OS services
> 	checking for the valid characters in filenames... 7-bit
>
> Obviously this software is not prepared for Mac OS X.
>

It's consoling to see that people much more knowledgeable than me are  
also struggling with this. But I'm also surprised that there aren't  
more efforts to get a working xindy port for OSX, given that this in  
combination with XeTeX would allow a more or less complete Unicode  
workflow (That's not meant as a criticism, I'm just surprised).

simon


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