[tex-live] lualatex segfault when run sample beamer document

Jonathan Kew jfkthame at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 19 14:45:56 CET 2010


On 19 Feb 2010, at 13:08, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> 
> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> 2010/2/19 Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com>:
>>> 
>>> Vladimir Lomov wrote:
>>>> This is default output. If there were more verbose and version evident
>>>> output I would say about that.
>>> If there was a sane way to get the gobal revision information from
>>> subversion, I would use that in the banner. Unfortunately, subversion
>>> is horribly lacking in that.
>>> 
>> You should call "svn info", parse the output, find URL of the
>> repository, call "svn info $url" and parse its output. Of course, it
>> should be done AFTER commit. This will create some svn_info.h file
>> containing the definition of the banner.
> 
> Except that all of that processing has to be sort of optional because
> the source tarballs are not based on a subversion tree, and in that case
> (and only that case) there has to be a static svn_info.h file that is
> created automatically during packaging.
> 
> After three tries at scripting something like this, I have discovered
> that it sounds a whole lot easier than it actually is, and concluded
> that subversion is simply unfriendly wrt build id numbering and gave up.
> 
> If you (or anyone else) can write me a script or executable that can do
> all of this, that would be absolutely wonderful!
> 

I'd be interested too. Currently, TeXworks builds include the svn revision in their "About" info, but maintaining this is not fully automated and therefore it is not always up to date.

JK




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