[tldistro] [tlbuild] problems with synctex - warning to others

[Norbert Preining]

Hi,

just FYI, this is the log of changes in the web2c/synctexdir since the
TL2017 sources are fixed:


commit 56abb740c194aa42900f568d933e728d80511269
Author: Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>
Date:   Thu Jan 18 23:09:04 2018 +0000

    man page tweaks from Debian
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@46371 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit 333b8ccff6bdff31fe4b6a67eb695c19b7960370
Author: Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>
Date:   Wed Nov 15 00:36:56 2017 +0000

    use #!/bin/sh -vx for nontrivial shell *.test files, so <testname>.log is more useful
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@45809 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit 4aa22c49aa6f94a4d4942ca70edbfe24b9e24d0e
Author: Jérôme Laurens <jerome.laurens at u-bourgogne.fr>
Date:   Tue Oct 31 11:50:59 2017 +0000

    SyncTeX parser 1.22
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@45654 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit 196dfbaef026552407be90791f1e8394ba28f7f7
Author: Jérôme Laurens <jerome.laurens at u-bourgogne.fr>
Date:   Wed Oct 11 19:29:05 2017 +0000

    SyncTeX parser 1.20. Initialisations fixes.
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@45521 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit 1a2bd78041669a33a6b506e6169850eca1a830c3
Author: Jérôme Laurens <jerome.laurens at u-bourgogne.fr>
Date:   Thu Sep 14 17:38:58 2017 +0000

    Synchronize with SyncTeX on GitHub. No TeX rebuild.
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@45301 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit f05e2da71489312491c8f767ff19bcfcd9e156fe
Author: Jérôme Laurens <jerome.laurens at u-bourgogne.fr>
Date:   Thu Sep 14 16:23:15 2017 +0000

    Fixed a division by 0 error in synctex_parser.c (Text editors only)
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@45300 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit 1488989ab07c867623646257f6480b1c00c74fc9
Author: Jérôme Laurens <jerome.laurens at u-bourgogne.fr>
Date:   Tue Sep 12 17:16:53 2017 +0000

    synchronization enhancement and header included, only affects the synctex command line tool and editors
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@45276 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit 012711fd6520174137f0dc26f0a99e19b2cefec8
Author: Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>
Date:   Tue Jul 18 04:11:12 2017 +0000

    synctexdir: mingw32 also does not use syslog.h
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@44839 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit 9ab6242d41f450da9e45a358abd4135845eacd0f
Author: Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>
Date:   Sun Jul 16 21:20:45 2017 +0000

    avoid to be included twice
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@44824 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit 604850467f90d5326237662a9ba7d63e4d603e11
Author: Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>
Date:   Sat Jul 15 23:37:55 2017 +0000

    cosmetic
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@44815 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit a2d114994b1a1f4996a5182248458ea026fbcfa2
Author: Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>
Date:   Sat Jul 15 23:03:35 2017 +0000

    remove duplicated definition of type
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@44814 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit cc9608d6885cdd3caeb63aeabc197373cd74c6cf
Author: Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>
Date:   Sat Jul 15 00:15:55 2017 +0000

    synctexdir: support Visual Studio 2015
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@44801 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit e79024074b660af16c7230697aa017696962c4be
Author: Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>
Date:   Fri Jul 14 23:11:06 2017 +0000

    synctexdir: Support Visual Studio 2015
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@44800 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit 7c6333281faa215d35b9182c105d6f27e1b8bcc8
Author: Jérôme Laurens <jerome.laurens at u-bourgogne.fr>
Date:   Fri Jul 14 17:17:43 2017 +0000

    SyncTeX: Typo fixed in documentation
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@44796 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

commit 5cba96277bf7c4945781ecc12018ce3e2baf82ff
Author: Jérôme Laurens <jerome.laurens at u-bourgogne.fr>
Date:   Fri Jul 14 17:13:28 2017 +0000

    Version 1.19 of the synctex parser
    
    git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@44795 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751


> 2) I just tested this synctex in TeXShop with the version of TeX on the current DVD for 2018 and it continues to work.

That means that TeXShop does *not* use 'synctex_next_result' function.
This is (hopefully!) the only one changed.

> 5) Finally, looking at the SyncTeX code for this year, there is a ChangeLog dated Jan 18, 2018. It lists man page changes, but the latest code changes seem to be dated July, 2017.

See above.

> Therefore, I wonder if Norbert's message is just the rest of the world catching up with these changes in 2017.

No. See http://bugs.debian.org/895980 for more

Best

Norbert

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