[OS X TeX] TeXShop in MacTeX 2018 pretest

[Richard Koch]

Michael and other people texting:

I originally built TeXShop 398 on High Sierra and used that version in the
MacTeX-2018 test. Then I released 398 on my web site. But it turned
out that the High Sierra version wasn't correctly signed so I rebuilt it
on Sierra and released that. That version no longer had signing issues.
 All subsequent releases are built on Sierra.

For some reason, my High Sierra XCode claims to correctly sign programs,
but actually doesn't. 

Fairly soon, there should be new versions of the 2018 packages, all signed
this time on Sierra.

Dick Koch

> On Mar 16, 2018, at 2:19 PM, Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
> One more data point.
> 
> I installed mactex-20180304 on an old laptop (early 2008) running El Capitan. It seemed to install without issues. When I tried to start TeXShop (3.98), the program failed almost immediately and put up a Problem Report for TeXShop in which the most important line seemed to be
> 
> EXC_CRASH (Code Signature Invalid)
> 
> I did not try disabling SIP to check if that affected anything.
> 
> Replacing TeXShop 3.98 with 3.99 resolved the issue.
> 
> Michael
> 
>> On Mar 16, 2018, at 1:18 PM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> John,
>> 
>> Thanks very much for this test, which is actually good news for me,
>> Another user installed also on El Capitan and reported that pdftex
>> and other TeX binaries failed with an "illegal instruction 4" error.
>> On my El Capitan machine, the binaries work, and indeed they are
>> compiled on this machine.
>> 
>> My machine runs 10.11.6, as does yours. I don't yet know what version
>> of El Capitan this user is running.
>> 
>> NOTICE TO OTHERS: We desperately need more tests on El Capitan!!!
>> 
>> --------------
>> 
>> Now as to your particular issue, I don't know if TeXShop 3.98 runs on
>> El Capitan, but in the process or studying the issue above, I found that
>> version 3.99 runs fine. The release version of MacTeX-2018 will contain
>> 3.99, and indeed it already does here. So you did the correct thing by
>> downloading the most recent TeXShop when the other one failed.
>> 
>> Dick Koch
>> 
>>> On Mar 16, 2018, at 1:06 PM, John Collins <jcc8 at psu.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've newly installed MacTeX 2018 pretest.  That went extremely smoothly, and the TeXLive 2018 pretest part of it seems to be working correctly.
>>> 
>>> However TeXShop.app as installed from the 2018 pretest crashes immediately on startup, with the message "TeXShop quit unexpectedly". If I start the executable (in Contents/MacOS) from the command line, it simply gives a message "Killed" and then stops. Info.plist reports the TeXShop version as 3.98
>>> 
>>> I restored an older version of TeXShop (3.77) from backup; that still worked.  Then I installed the newest version (3.99) from the Check for Updates menu item.  The new version works.
>>> 
>>> So there appears to be a problem specifically with the version of TeXShop that is is installed by the current MacTeX 2018 pretest (mactex-20180304.pkg).  I can provide the crash report if needed.
>>> 
>>> I am running El Capitan (10.11.6) on an iMac from mid 2010.
>>> 
>>> John Collins
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