[tlbuild] upmendex, U_INVALID_FORMAT_ERROR, U_ICUDATA_ENTRY_POINT, isBigEndian

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 11 May 2016 at 19:50, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> 2016-05-11 20:23 GMT+03:00 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> Should I build twice, one with -DU_IS_BIG_ENDIAN=0, only taking
>> upmendex, and the second time without that flag, taking everything
>> else? In particular if xetex is known to be broken when built with
>> -DU_IS_BIG_ENDIAN=0.
>
> No xetex is not broken but slower. I think that xetex will be used more
> times than upmendex, so it important to have a xetex binary that is as
> fast as possible.

Yes, that makes sense.

>> Apostolos, are you able to come up with some reasonably small example
>> that fails?
>
> I think you are talking about upmendex, right?

No, I was talking of xetex and your failure report:

> Writing index file people.idx
> Writing index file subject.idx
> (./demystifying-comp.aux)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tipa/t3cmr.fd)
> *geometry* driver: auto-detecting
> *geometry* detected driver: xetex
> (./frontmatter.tex [1] [2] [1] [2] [3]) [4] (./demystifying-comp.toc) [5]
> (./preface.tex [6]) [7] [8] (./Ch01/Ch01.tex
> Chapter 1.
> [1] <use  "./Ch01/greek_numerals-crop.pdf" >
> <use  "./Ch01/greek_numerals2-crop.pdf" >
> <use  "./Ch01/maya_numerals-crop.pdf" > <use  "./Ch01/Maya2017-crop.pdf" >
> [2
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: Something is wrong. Are you sure this is a DVI file?

Mojca