[tex-live] XeTeX or xdvipdfmx Broken on Mac

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 08:44:35AM +0200, Jiang Jiang wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Jiang Jiang <gzjjgod at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:27:03AM -0700, Richard Koch wrote:
> >>> If the line near the bottom defining font “J” to be Osaka is commented out,
> >>> and the corresponding Japanese text at the end is commented out, this typesets
> >>> fine. If we add back the line defining the “J” font, but not the Japanese text,
> >>> typesetting is still fine. Adding the final line with Japanese text leads to the
> >>> message
> >>>
> >>> xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (6)
> >>
> >> This seems like a CID font issue in dvipdfmx, which I know near nothing about. A reduced test file:
> >> \font\test="Osaka"\test 今日は\bye
> >>
> >> CC'ing Jiang in case he has any idea about it.
> >
> > I will have a look today or tomorrow.
> 
> How do I build XeTeX and dvipdfmx out of TeXLive svn tree on Mac these days?

No idea, I just build the whole thing, but probably you can just copy
the build.sh script for XeTeX repo and use it.

Regards,
Khaled