<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The only babel currently installed on my system is in <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px;" class="">/usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/.</span><div><br class=""></div><div>So I don’t know how to build all the needed files — given that I’m testing to see if this avoids a clash between babel’s french support and another package (crossreftools), I ought to install everything from this test babel.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I tried putting a copy of lthe latex docstrip.cfg in the same folder as the dowloaded (unzipped) babel distribution but changing it so as to use:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>\BaseDirectory{/Users/me/Library/texmf}</div><div><br class=""></div><div>instead of the default.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>But now when I run `latex babel.ins` I get a message that it cannot write to ~/Library/texmf/generic/babel/babel.log. Which is not surprising given that no subdirectory babel current exists in ~/Library/texmf/generic. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>So I seem to be stymied.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2 Oct2019, at 5:29 PM, jfbu <<a href="mailto:jfbu@free.fr" class="">jfbu@free.fr</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Hi Murray,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Le 02/10/2019 à 21:17, Murray Eisenberg a écrit :<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">To see if an incompatibility between babel and another LaTeX package has been eliminated in the latest, unstable, build of babel, the babel maintainer suggests I try this latest version.<br class="">How do I do that from the downloaded .dtx and .ins — WITHOUT overwriting the babel files currently in the TeXLive texmf tree and yet so that latex will be able to use this latest version?<br class="">If I simply cd to the folder holding babel.dtx and babel.ins and run latex babel.ins, immediately I get a request to overwrite a file in the previously-installed texmf tree.<br class="">What I want to do, if it will work, is put all the files needed in the same folder as my source document, so that I can test whether the incompatibility has bee cured.<br class=""> <br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">I know this will not be of any help to you but I too was interested in<br class="">trying out the babel from github repo.<br class=""><br class="">I was confronted with same problem as you which I attempted<br class="">to solve via editing by hand the ins file.<br class=""><br class="">But even after having done that I ended up with a babel.sty (the only<br class="">file I was interested in), which was unusable for me from containing<br class="">Lua code<br class=""><br class="">I believe build is supposed to use lua, there is a build.lua script.<br class=""><br class="">In the end I simply "git diff" with the 3.44 version to identify<br class="">the change I was interested in in file babel.dtx, and I copied pasted directly<br class="">into a local copy of current babel.sty in my working repertory<br class="">the relevant modification.<br class=""><br class="">I could then test succesfully the fix to the issue I was interested in<br class=""><br class="">(I think this is #30 in github repo, but it was closed without<br class="">linking to the actual commit solving it ; not that that was<br class="">a big riddle to solve as it was naturally the latest commit as of<br class="">today in the repo :) )<br class=""><br class="">I know it does not help...<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class=""><br class="">Jean-François<br class=""><br class="">----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br class="">TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" class="">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br class="">List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/" class="">https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/</a><br class="">List Archives: <a href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx" class="">http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx</a><br class=""> <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/</a><br class="">TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/" class="">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br class="">List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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