[XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

[Chris Travers]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de> wrote:
>
> Am 20.10.2011 um 12:53 schrieb Chris Travers:
>
>> However, statically linking things strikes me as even worse from a
>> stability/security perspective (which is what is critical with server
>> software).  It means that if there is a bug in any of the libraries
>> you have possibly linked to, you have to upgrade everything.
>
> This is what the TeX Live package manager performs. The providers of TeX Live do the whole job.
>
I think you miss the point.  When something went wrong with zlib in
2002, software from the Apache Web Server to Microsoft Office required
security patches.  Now, I take it you figure that TexLive 2007, 2008,
2009, 2010, will not get such security patches....  So that means if
such a problem affected you, everyone would have to upgrade to the
latest version, possibly breaking any automated document generation in
the process, *just to get the security fix.*

This is why external TexLive distributions are bad ideas on server
systems, though they are great for workstations, and why many of us
then end up working with the distro-supplied packages, as they are not
statically linked.


[root at chris-dev2 ledgersmb_1.3]# ldd /usr/bin/latex
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00f3a000)
	libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x003ae000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x00d6b000)
	libkpathsea.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.4 (0x00d80000)
	libpoppler.so.5 => /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5 (0x04516000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x040c0000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00d1b000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x040a0000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00b8e000)
	liblcms.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0x04ae1000)
	libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x0478e000)
	libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x003d8000)
	libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00485000)
	libopenjpeg.so.2 => /usr/lib/libopenjpeg.so.2 (0x005af000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00b6c000)
	libexpat.so.1 => /lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x00384000)

So if libz needs a security update, I can get it without replacing
everything else....

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers