[XeTeX] Strange problem with 0.996 and 0.9995 xetex and File Names.

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 5, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 4 Sep 2009, at 22:55, Karl Berry wrote:
>
>>> Someone on the TeXShop Forum came up with a rather strange problem
>>> using either xetex 0.996 (or 0.9995 in the TL-2009 pretest)
>>> involving file names with spaces in them. Using a file with name
>>> `Summary II.tex' the following error was generated
>>>
>>> ! I can't find file `"Summary II.texSELFAUTOPARENT"'.
>>> <*> "Summary II.tex"SELFAUTOPARENT
>>
>> FWIW, both
>>
>> xetex "Summary II"
>> and
>> xetex "Summary II.tex"
>>
>> work fine for me on i386-linux.  But they do indeed fail for me on
>> universal-darwin; I get
>> ! I can't find file Summary II.texTEXMF"'
>> instead of SELFAUTOPARENT, but same difference.
>>
>> I doubt it is anything about texmf.cnf; can't imagine what it would  
>> be.
>> My guess is that there is some kind of strange bug in the space- 
>> handling
>> code and/or mallocs, and it gets exposed on macosx for some reason.
>
>
> I think this is a bug in xetex's filename-quoting code. I have been  
> able to reproduce the behavior with the current xetex binary from  
> TL'09, but not with a local build; this is probably due to  
> differences in compiler version, options, or environment that affect  
> the details of how memory allocation happens to turn out.
>
> Anyhow, I will check in a fix for what I believe is the underlying  
> error, and hope that when Dick rebuilds the binaries, the bug will  
> be eradicated.
>
> (committed to TL as xetex 0.9995.2, svn r.15135)
>
> JK
>

Howdy,

Just downloaded and installed the latest (Sep 05) build of MacTeX  
which has the fix (Thank you Dick Koch) and it looks like the  
``Summary II.tex'' problem is gone. Thank you Jonathan.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)