[XeTeX] How to finish the installation of XeTeX 0.99993 (on MacOS)?

[George N. White III]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr>
wrote:

> Dear TeX fans, 13/11/16
>
> it is the first time I post anything on this list: I have used LaTeX for
> lectures, slides, conference papers, etc. for many years, I have a complete
> reference book, and always found answers in it or on the Web.
> This time, I am quite stuck! One Japanese colleague has used XeTeX on her
> Mac and passed me her files to do some debugging concerning the
> bibliography.
>
> I am using TeXShop (latest version), I reinstalled MacLive, and then
> MacTeX-2016, which are supposed to come with XeTeX. No way.
> The message is always the same. Trying to complie from TeXShop:
>
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt
> warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these
> directories:
> /opt/local/bin:/opt/local:/opt:/opt/local/bin/share/
> texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/
> share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/
> opt/local/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/
> local/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/
> opt/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf/web2c:/opt/
> local/texmf/web2c:/opt/texmf/web2c:/.:/opt/local/share/
> texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c
> Trying to proceed...
> /opt/local/bin/mktexfmt: line 336: /texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or
> directory
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!
>
>
These messages are from macports' texlive.  Macports somewhat selfishly
puts itself to the
front of the PATH variable.  I routinely adjust this to put the MacTeX path
in front of the
macports' entry.  Macports texlive is required to support building
docmentation of packages
installed from source, but when installing from source, the PATH variable
is set to ignore
MacTeX, so this works well form most users.

Or, trying xelatex directly:
>
> ...Mutsuko-Cogalex-20161112-rvCB: xelatex CogCog-Alex-20161112-rvCB.tex
> warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these
> directories:
> /opt/local/bin:/opt/local:/opt:/opt/local/bin/share/
> texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/
> share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/
> opt/local/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/
> local/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/
> opt/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf/web2c:/opt/
> local/texmf/web2c:/opt/texmf/web2c:/.:/opt/local/share/
> texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c
> Trying to proceed...
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996-patch1 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt
> warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these
> directories:
> /opt/local/bin:/opt/local:/opt:/opt/local/bin/share/
> texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/
> share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/
> opt/local/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/
> local/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/
> opt/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf/web2c:/opt/
> local/texmf/web2c:/opt/texmf/web2c:/.:/opt/local/share/
> texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c
> Trying to proceed...
> /opt/local/bin/mktexfmt: line 336: /texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or
> directory
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!
>
>
>
> I then tried to reinstall separately XeTeX (version 0.9993).
> The build (using build.sh) was quite successful, and created after a quite
> long process a directory named "build-x86_64" and apparently correctly
> built.
> But I DON'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO FINISH THE INSTALL, which should place the
> files where expected.
> The INSTALL file (inside build-x86_64) says somewhat cryptically:
>
> INSTALL for XeTeX Snapshots
>
> This distribution is essentially a stripped-down version of
> the TeXlive distribution with some additional libraries.
>
> All source code is in the directory source; the build.sh
> scripts will generate and populate a directory build.
>
> The actual code of XeTeX is in source/texk/web2c/xetexdir
> and its subdirectories.
>
> * build.sh         builds a native xetex on your system
> * build.sh --ppc   crosscompiles for osx-ppx from osx-intel
> * build.sh --mingw crosscompiles xetex for mingw32 on i686-linux
>
> XeTeX does not need a run-time pool file, and it locates
> texmf.cnf *based on its relative position in the TeX tree.*
>
> *Post-compilation installation should be a simple matter *
> *of copying the executable to a normal place for web2c *
> *binaries and generating the desired formats.*
>
>
> What is "the executable"? The complete directory (transformed in an .app
> file -- a "package")? Some of the executables in the texk>kpathsea
> directory?
> And what is "a normal place for web2c" ???
>
> I tried hard but did not find any tutorial or online discussion on that
> matter. Please help!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Xan
>

This all has to do with the bash shell configuration -- something many
macOS users
rarely encounter.  You need to look into the startup configuration for bash
in a bash
manual.   The macports changes are clearly marked, and the manual will
explain
how to adjust them for your needs.




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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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