[tlbuild] [jfkthame at googlemail.com: Re: TeXworks in the OpenBSD ports tree / XeTeX build in TL-2009]

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Edd Barrett wrote:

> Myself and Jonathan have been discussing the XeTeX build in TeX Live.
>
> Do you think this error in the xdvipdfmx configure should exit the
> build (unless --without-xetex is used):
>
>> checking for installed fontconfig headers and library... no
>> checking for fontconfig header files and library... no
>> configure: WARNING: fontconfig library or ApplicationServices
>> framework not found.
>> This version of xdvipdfmx requires either ApplicationServices (on
>> Mac OS X)
>> or the fontconfig library (on other platforms) to be available,
>> otherwise it
>> cannot support XeTeX output using standard system-installed fonts.

Hi Edd,

(1) in TL 2009 the option has been renamed --disable-xetex

(2) this does not imply --disable-xdvipdfmx

(3) when you run "configure" and "build" this error does not exit the build. 
There is, however, the (relatively new) option --disable-missing,
automatically added by the ./Build script; with this option the error does
exit the build.  Please have a look at ./Build and ./README.config.

Regards
Peter