[tex-live] TeTeX in TeX Live 2015 broken on Mac

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 06:15:24PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 06:44:58AM -0700, Richard Koch wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > This list already has hints from Herbert Schulz of additional XeTeX problems
> > on the Mac in TeXLive 2015, independent of the bug, now fixed, in xdvipdfmx. 
> > The purpose of this message is to confirm the bug. 
> > 
> > MacTeX contains two
> > short documents, with source, to show users what XeTeX can do. Neither
> > typesets in XeTeX for 2015. Example:
> 
> A shorter version that reproduces the issue:
> 
> \font\helv="Helvetica"
> \ifnum\XeTeXcountvariations\helv>0\fi
> \bye

Even shorter:
\ifnum\XeTeXcountvariations\font>0\fi\bye

Regards,
Khaled