[XeTeX] How do I build xdvipdfmx (or xdv2pdf) on Windows?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 7 Mar 2008, at 6:14 pm, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 7 mars 08 à 18:10, Jjgod Jiang a écrit :
>
>> Oops, sorry for sending out the patch too soon, it should be:
>>
>> $ svn diff
>> Index: build-xetex
>> ===================================================================
>> --- build-xetex	(revision 600)
>> +++ build-xetex	(working copy)
>> @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
>>  rm -rf Work
>>  find . -name config.cache -print -exec rm -f {} \;
>>
>> +export ac_cv_exeext=''
>> +
>>  find . -name configure -exec chmod +x {} \;
>>
>>  # fix up symlink possibly lost in ViewVC's tarball generation :(
>
> You're a star!
>
> After applying your patch:
>
> ### Products built successfully:
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 bvoisin  wheel  8040448  7 mar 18:41 Work/texk/web2c/ 
> xetex
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 bvoisin  wheel    79308  7 mar 18:41 Work/texk/xdv2pdf/
> T1Wrap
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 bvoisin  wheel   176624  7 mar 18:41 Work/texk/xdv2pdf/
> xdv2pdf
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 bvoisin  wheel  1290220  7 mar 18:41 Work/texk/ 
> xdvipdfmx/
> src/xdvipdfmx

OK, thanks for confirming this. I've patched build-xetex in the  
repository.

> install-xetex works afterwards as well:
> ....

> What I'm a bit surprised by, is that the updated TeX and LaTeX support
> files are installed in texmf-local: I would have thought these would
> replace the old files in texmf-dist, in the same way as the updated
> binaries have replaced the old ones in texbin. Maybe this is just
> standard TeXLive policy, after all.

Well.... no, I don't know that there is any "standard TeXLive policy"  
on this. Maybe we should go for texmf-dist instead. When I first  
wrote this script, I was hesitant to intrude into the main  
distribution directories any more than necessary, and felt that  
installing our additions in -local was cleaner. But that was before  
many of these files had a standard home in the distribution; xetex as  
a whole was an "add-on" rather than an update.

(And so we weren't overwriting binaries, we were adding new ones;  
they had to go into the main bin directory in order for all the  
texmf.cnf stuff to work properly.)

What do people think -- should the install script be modified to  
replace old files in texmf-dist with new ones from the repository?  
I'm inclined to think "yes", but on the other hand that might cause  
more problems for people using texlive packages that are under the  
control of a package manager (on Linux, etc).

JK