[XeTeX] using xetex in make

Mike Maxwell maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
Thu Aug 16 16:45:18 CEST 2007


Nikola Lecic wrote:
> Ah! Mate, please include the entire file that causes problems next
> time. Your description
> 
>   (% /bin/sh
>    $ xetex xyz
>          works...
>    ... but invoked through /bin/sh in a child process it doesn't)
> 
> indicate that 99% it's strange shell behaviour in question; and then
> people spend their time trying to reproduce your problem -- which is not
> possible without Makefile parts you didn't show.

Sorry, but that was not really practical.  My makefiles read in other 
makefiles (sort of like an inheritance hierarchy), and the result of 
including them in my email would have been five or six makefiles, some 
of them quite long...
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	Mike Maxwell
	maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
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	--Bruce A. Schumm, Deep Down Things


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