[XeTeX] Trouble with the latest svn version

[Jonathan Kew]

On 7 Mar 2008, at 8:07 pm, Stephen Moye wrote:

>  On Friday, March 07, 2008, at 02:26PM, "Jonathan Kew"  
> <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
>> On 7 Mar 2008, at 7:07 pm, Stephen Moye wrote:
>>
>>> I used 'svn checkout' to get the most recent build of XeTeX from
>>> the svn repository. For the first time I had trouble with ./build-
>>> xetex. I am getting these errors:
>>>
>>> checking size of char... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof
>>> (char)
>>> See `config.log' for more details.
>>> configure: error: ../../../texk/xdvipdfmx/configure failed for
>>> xdvipdfmx
>>> configure: error: ../../../texk/configure failed for texk
>>> ### configure script appears to have failed
>>>
>>> What do do now??
>>>
>>
>> svn update -- the fix has just been checked in.
>>
>> JK
>
> Thanks very much for the wizard fix and the prompt reply --  
> everything is working perfectly.

Just a note to make it clear that the credit for this belongs to  
Jjgod Jiang, who identified the problem (it's a configure issue with  
Leopard, and I'm still on Tiger here so I hadn't run into it) and  
gave us the workaround -- see the recent "How do I build..." thread.

Glad it's working for you!

JK