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

[Christian Boitet]

G'day,							13/11/16

Vielen Dank Herb für die schnelle Antwort.

Ja zur Frage.

(Ich schrieb "I reinstalled MacLive, and then MacTeX-2016, which are supposed to come with XeTeX. No way.
The message is always the same...")

Maybe I should try to uninstall all TeX-related files and reinstall, but it is too complex to do it by hand. The installers are supposed to replace what should be replaced, but obviously don't erase all what should be erased.

Any hint of a "total clean uninstaller" for TeX and related files/programs?

Best,

Xan (Grenoble)


> Le 13 nov. 2016 à 23:06, Herb Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> a écrit :
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Sorry for the top post. 
> 
> Have you installed MacTeX? It installs a full TeX Live distribution when includes xe(la)tex. 
> 
> Good Luck,
> Herb Schulz
> 
> On Nov 13, 2016, at 12:33 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'!
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
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