[tlbuild] Building on Macintosh

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Intel and PowerPC now fail the [ttfdump] test
>
> I fail to see how a change in chktex (as opposed to a library) can
> affect ttfdump.

It probably doesn't. I believe that "make check" stops at the first
error, so if multiple tests would fail, only the first one is seen.
Once that gets resolved, others start showing up.

> At least core dumps are usually easier to debug than test failures.
>
>     I have formed a suspicion that programmers are more and more working with
>     64 bit machines.
>
> Certainly true, but that doesn't mean we can stop supporting them.
>
> Feel free to configure --disable-ttfdump to ignore the problem.

With this flag, all tests pass.

Mojca