[tlbuild] Building on Mac OS X

[Richard Koch]

Peter,

> On Sun, 17 May 2009, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
>
>> according to the log, configuring texk/web2c/ failed to find the X  
>> headers
>> and libraries.  Can you look into texk/web2c/config.log for the  
>> reason
>> and/or send me that file (preferably as mime type text/plain, not
>> application/octet-stream).

I am as impressed by your debugging skill as I am mystified by  
stupidity at my end.

The short summary is that I've now compiled the latest svn sources and  
got 304 binaries. Today I'll return to the original task, which was to  
compile xindy.

DETAILS:

When I compile ghostscript for MacTeX, I produce two binaries, one  
with X11 support and one without. To omit X11 support, I change /usr/ 
X11R6 to /usr/X11R6-temp and compile. Then I change /usr/X11R6-temp  
back to /usr/X11R6. It turns out that when I compiled TeX Live  
yesterday, I had two folders:  /usr/X11R6 and /usr/X11R6-temp.  The  
first folder had a binary subdirectory, but no include subdirectory.  
The second had both of these subdirectories (and others as well, of  
course). When I made the second folder active, the problem went away.

How, then, did that defective /usr/X11R6 get there? Until a minute  
ago, I blamed gremlins. Then a glimmer of an idea occurred to me,  
which I am too embarrassed to put into words.

Many thanks.

Dick Koch