[OS X TeX] biber error

[Alan Munn]

On Jan 2, 2011, at 9:00 PM, Alan Munn wrote:

> 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.)


One more question.  Having upgraded to Snow Leopard, biber works, but it seems to be in a directory that isn't findable from the command line, since it's in /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin/ .  What's the best way to fix this?

Alan

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