[tex-live] repeated xelatex call destroys pdf output

[Johannes Hielscher]

The bug was reported for the TL2018 .deb packages for Buster (testing).

Here on Debian Stretch (stable), repeated builds run as intended with
both TL2016 via package manager, and a current TL2018 from tlmgr.
Maybe, the problem is not within XeTeX itself, but somewhere else
in the Buster userland (freetype?).

Norbert, on which Debian branch were you able to reproduce the bug?

Johannes

Am Tue, 4 Sep 2018 20:35:01 +0200
schrieb Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> I tried again and it really works even with the fontenc package so it
> might be something Debian specific. I use Fedora with TL from TUG,
> not the rpm's.
> 
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
> 
> 
> út 4. 9. 2018 v 17:27 odesílatel David Carlisle
> <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> napsal:
> 
> > the \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} line is certainly wrong for xetex but
> > on my updated (cygwin) texlive 2018 pdfinfo doesn't give any errors
> > on the generated file with or without this line.
> >
> > what happens if you use --no-pdf to xelatex and then run xdvipdfmx
> > by hand on the resulting xdv, that usually gives better diagnostics
> > for pdf generation stage.
> >
> >
> >
> > David
> >