[tex-live] Xindy broken in TL2011 pretest?

[Simon Spiegel]

On 07.06.2011, at 15:51, Simon Spiegel wrote:

> 
> On 07.06.2011, at 15:39, Joachim Schrod wrote:
> 
>> Simon Spiegel wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I normally use the 64-bit version, but it doesn't make any difference.
>> 
>> OK, so let's continue with the 64-bit Intel version, as it is the
>> simpler situation, with one xindy.mem file.
>> 
>> What happens if you execute
>> 
>>   /usr/texbin/xindy.run -M /usr/texbin/xindy.mem -E iso-8859-1
>> 
>> There _should_ be a prompt
>> 
>>   [1]>
>> 
>> At the prompt enter xindy:*xindy-kernel-version* to check if it
>> knows at least its version number and then (quit) to exit again. To
>> wit:
>> 
>>   [1]> xindy:*xindy-kernel-version*
>>   "3.0"
>>   [2]> (quit)
>> 
>> Does this work?
> 
> No, it doesn't. After 
> 
>   /usr/texbin/xindy.run -M /usr/texbin/xindy.mem -E iso-8859-1
> 
> I only get 
> 
> Abort trap

Just wanted to let you know that after the latest tlmgr update round (which was huge) xindy seems to work fine again.

Simon
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