[XeTeX] compiling: No rule to make target `xetex'

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 11:06:11 CET 2009


Hello,

after the transition to a new machine running Ubuntu (64-bit) I cannot
compile XeTeX any more. Everything seems to run smoothly if I ignore
hundreds of warnings like

../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc: In member function 'void
FoFiTrueType::cvtEncoding(char**, void (*)(void*, char*, int),
void*)':
../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc:1120: warning: deprecated
conversion from string constant to 'char*'
../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc:1124: warning: deprecated
conversion from string constant to 'char*'
../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc:1129: warning: deprecated
conversion from string constant to 'char*'
../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc:1137: warning: deprecated
conversion from string constant to 'char*'
../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc: In member function 'void
FoFiTrueType::cvtCharStrings(char**, Gushort*, void (*)(void*, char*,
int), void*)':
../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc:1149: warning: deprecated
conversion from string constant to 'char*'
../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc:1150: warning: deprecated
conversion from string constant to 'char*'
../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc:1178: warning: deprecated
conversion from string constant to 'char*'
../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc:1187: warning: deprecated
conversion from string constant to 'char*'
../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc: In member function 'void
FoFiTrueType::cvtSfnts(void (*)(void*, char*, int), void*, GString*,
GBool)':
../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc:1226: warning: deprecated
conversion from string constant to 'char*'
../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc:1242: warning: deprecated
conversion from string constant to 'char*'
../../../../libs/xpdf/fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc:1296: warning: deprecated
conversion from string constant to 'char*'

but it fails in the very last step:

libtool: link: ar cru
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/.libs/libfreetype.a
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftsystem.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftdebug.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftinit.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftbase.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftbbox.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftbdf.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftcid.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftbitmap.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftglyph.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftgxval.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftmm.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftotval.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftpfr.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftstroke.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftsynth.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/fttype1.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftwinfnt.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftxf86.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftlcdfil.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftgasp.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftpatent.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/truetype.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/type1.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/cff.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/type1cid.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/pfr.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/type42.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/winfnt.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/pcf.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/bdf.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/sfnt.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/autofit.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/pshinter.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/raster.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/smooth.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftcache.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftgzip.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/ftlzw.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/psaux.o
/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/psnames.o
libtool: link: ranlib /home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/.libs/libfreetype.a
libtool: link: ( cd "/home/mojca/xetex/Work/libs/freetype2/.libs" &&
rm -f "libfreetype.la" && ln -s "../libfreetype.la" "libfreetype.la" )
### Making xetex binary using: 'cd Work/texk/web2c && /usr/bin/make
web2cdir=/opt/texlive2008 xetex'
make: *** No rule to make target `xetex'.  Stop.
### failed to build the xetex binary

Does anyone have a clue about what could be wrong/what I should check?

Thanks a lot,
     Mojca


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