[XeTeX] trouble compiling from svn

[Jonathan Kew]

On 12 Jun 2007, at 6:43 pm, Nikola Lecic wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:37:51 -0700
> Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
>
>> On 12 Jun 2007, at 6:34 am, Will Robertson wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I hate to ask about these sorts of things, but I'm not having any
>>> luck compiling XeTeX from source (rev. 473). Last time this sort of
>>> thing happened, I needed to update my developer tools -- same again?
>> [...]
>> Sorry for the trouble; I wasn't aware it's currently broken, but
>> will try and fix it shortly -- provided my battery holds up. :)
>
> It doesn't seem broken, a confirmation from the different platform,
> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (i386), using the up-to-date system zlib,  
> freetype2
> and fontconfig. I've just compiled the revision 473 (with a couple
> of /earlier/ tiny tweaks in build-xetex and runConfigure.sh):
>
>   -rwxr-xr-x  1 nikola  nyx  14183315 Jun 13 03:22 Work/texk/web2c/ 
> xetex

Thanks for the confirmation; it also built fine for me, with both  
gcc3.3 and gcc4 toolchains. So it seems there may be something about  
Will's setup that is confusing it. (I've suggested he capture the  
console output and send to me if he can't track down the problem.)

JK