[XeTeX] little question

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 17 sept. 07 à 04:39, Herbert Schulz a écrit :

> Thanks to Peter and Will. I've now got local copies of the sources.
> Haven't tried to build yet but I'll start to take a look at things as
> time permits.

Just one thing: as Peter Dyballa mentioned, you'll need libkpathsea  
to build xdvipdfmx. On the Mac it's not provided with MacTeX, you  
need gwTeX instead.

And then you'll need the proper invocation of configure pointing out  
to the locations of libkpathsea and libfreetype. I don't know whether  
things have changed in this respect, but some time ago, when teTeX  
was the standard, the invocation for Mac OS X was as mentioned at:

<http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2006-October/005269.html>

You'll need, of course, to update it to point to gwTeX instead.

That said, with all the changes reported on this list (patches for  
xdvipdfmx, updated config files such as xdvipdfmx.cfg, updated  
packages such as fontspec, etc.), changes which I've given up on  
tracking, personally I won't try to update anything and stay content  
with the latest XeTeX release (meaning, on the Mac, that included in  
MacTeX), until a new release is provided including all those changes  
in a fully consistent way.

FWIW,

Bruno Voisin