[XeTeX] XeTeX doesn't compile (Snow Leopard)

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 22:59, Peter Dyballa wrote:
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> Am 02.11.2009 um 20:54 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
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>> It would be nice to apply the patch in some form, but the fix for Snow
>> Leopard needs to be deeper than just fixing a few lines it seems.
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> The patch question is quite easy to handle:

I meant applying it to the trunk as opposed to just applying it to my
source every time. (I know that it's doable, but I'll disable building
XeTeX in the workflow and take it from TeX Live instead. I cannot
compile XeTeX for two out of three platforms anyway and XeTeX is not
as actively changing as it used to, so TL binaries will serve just
fine for some time.)

> Since this will be a few MB it's better to send me all privately.

I can send it, but we cannot do anything about it. I later figured out
that compilation stops at

../../../texk/web2c/xetexdir/XeTeXFontMgr_Mac.mm:67: error:
‘FMGetFontFromATSFontRef’ was not declared in this scope

This and other functions have disappeared from Apple core (Dick Koch
confirmed that and also reminded me of some other facts that I
forgot), so there's nothing we can do before Jonathan or someone else
completely rewrites some part of XeTeX that talks to Apple's
libraries.

Mojca