[XeTeX] Re: XeTeX Digest, Vol 7, Issue 26

[Jonathan Kew]

On 13 Oct 2004, at 10:03 am, Simon Spiegel wrote:

>> On 13 Oct 2004, at 12:20 am, Simon Spiegel wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not only unable to install version 0.88 from the disc image, but  
>>> I
>>> get a broken installation when doing it with the i-installer. After
>>> this installation I get the following:
>>>
>>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.88 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>>> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>>>
>>>
>>> De-Installing XeTeX and re-installing it (both with the i-installer)
>>> didn't change anything.
>>>
>>
>> It's failing to rebuild the format file during installation. To see
>> why, you'd need to look at the "subprocess output" in i-Installer, or
>> you could try the format creation from the Terminal and see what  
>> errors
>> are occurring. Appropriate Terminal commands to recreate the format
>> files would be:
>> 	sudo fmtutil --byfmt xetex
>> 	sudo fmtutil --byfmt xelatex
>
> This happened now two times on two different computers.
>
> sudo fmtutil --byfmt xelatex gives me the following:
>
> running `xetex -ini   -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex *xelatex.ini'  
> ...
> ! xetex.pool doesn't match; tangle me again (or fix the path).
> Error: `xetex -ini  -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex *xelatex.ini'  
> failed
>

So it's finding the wrong xetex.pool file. What does

	kpsewhich xetex.pool

report?

> ####################################################################### 
> ########
> fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
> Visit the log files in directory
>   /sw/var/lib/texmf/web2c
> for details.
> ####################################################################### 
> ########

Ah yes, as Bruno's response indicates, you have a Fink texmf tree. The  
i-Package version of the XeTeX installer doesn't know about  
Fink-installed TeX; it assumes it's working with the standard TeX  
i-Package.

The Apple Installer package tries to accommodate Fink installations  
(though I don't have one myself, so it's untested); I guess that's how  
you got the earlier version installed. If you remove  
/Library/Receipts/XeTeX.pkg, so that the Apple Installer package  
permits installation, you may have better success.

> This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
> `xetex -ini  -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex *xelatex.ini' failed
>
>
>> One possibility is that your LaTeX configuration is trying to load a
>> hyphenation file that is incompatible with XeTeX (because of using
>> Latin-1 8-bit characters, for example). But that's only a guess; the
>> log output of attempted format creation should confirm just what's
>> going wrong.
>>
>
> xelatex.log contains the following:
>
> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.871 (Web2C 7.5.2) (INITEX)  2  
> OCT 2004 11:26

Note from the version number and date that this is an old .log file;  
the bad pool error means that the new run isn't even starting a .log.

Jonathan