[tlbuild] Building on Mac

[Richard Koch]

Karl,

On Mar 21, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Karl Berry wrote:

>    I'm probably rushing the gun, but I decided to build the current source
>    on Mac OS X.  
> 
> It is definitely good to give it a try now.  Glad you did.
> (And if anyone else has a moment, go for it.)  The crucial thing is just
> not to commit any new binaries :).
> 
>    /Users/koch/texlive2012dev/source/Work/texk/kpathsea/.libs/libkpathsea.a
>    ld: bl out of range (-18576024 max is +/-16M) from
>    __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)at 0x01390030 in
>    __StaticInit of libxetex.a(libxetex_a-XeTeXLayoutInterface.o) to
>    __ZNSt8ios_base4InitC1Ev$stub$island at 0x001D8DDC in __text of xetex in
>    __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)from
>    libxetex.a(libxetex_a-XeTeXLayoutInterface.o) collect2: ld returned 1
> 
> Ugh.
> 
> Are the options and compiler the same as building TL'11?  I mean, does
> building TL'11 still succeed on this machine?

I used exactly the instructions used for TeX Live 2011. The
instructions are the same on the PPC machine as on the Intel Machine. 
> 
> Remind me what version "Leopard" is?  I think the only Mac server I have
> access to is Nelson's, where uname reports 9.8.0, which I suspect is too
> old?

Leopard is OS X 10.5.8. This is the last system which runs on PPC machines
(as well as Intel machines).

Snow Leopard is OS X 10.6.8.

Lion is OS X 10.7.3. It is the current system for up to date folks.

Mountain Lion is OS X 10.8, to appear later this summer. 

The last digit in these numbers is a minor upgrade number. Currently Apple
provides updates for Lion and Snow Leopard. The machine with problems
hasn't been updated or even used since we compiled MacTeX 2011. Note
that everything else in MacTeX 2012 compiles fine on the machine.

Dick