[OS X TeX] biber error

[Alan Munn]

On Jan 2, 2011, at 8:02 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Jan 2, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Alan Munn wrote:
>
>> Hi, since Herb mentioned biber in his most recent update of  
>> latexmk, I have a question about installing it.  I installed it  
>> using instructions from Joseph Wright's blog <http://www.texdev.net/tag/tex-live/ 
>> >, by doing:
>>
>> tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010 install biber
>> This installed it in /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin/ 
>> biber, which isn't in any of the normal paths, but that can easily  
>> be fixed.
>> However, when I tried to run it I get the following error:
>> e.g.
>> $ /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin/biber
>> dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022 Trace/BPT trap
>>
>> I get exactly the same error with a version downloaded directly  
>> from the biber web page:
>> <http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/>
>> What's going on, and how can I fix it?
>>
>> This is on a Intel MacBook running 10.5.8
>> Alan
>
> Howdy,
>
> Hmmm... It looks as though the biber you have is a 64bit version  
> that will only run under OS X 10.6 so I'd expect a problem trying to  
> run under 10.5. Looking at that repository there doesn't seem to be  
> a version for Universal-Darwin so you may be out of luck.


Oh well.  I guess I'll update to Snow Leopard then. (Although it would  
be nice if there was a correctly compiled binary around that would  
work on any OS.)

Thanks

Alan

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