> From [email protected] Wed Dec 10 20:28:01 2014
> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:40:38 +0000
> From: Ken Moffat <[email protected]>
> To: BLFS Development List <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] Texlive and current svn
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 07:09:48PM +0000, akhiezer wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Apols if is stated clearly earlier in thread, but: for non-build issues,
> > if possible could you post - or refer to place(s) in thread - the cmdlines
> > that you're seeing not work, along with the errors that you're seeing,
> > and what is expected output (I did see the n-page pdf post t'other day);
> > and if possible make any input files avail for download via yr lfs webspace
> > - or again pointers to them?
> > 
>  There have so-far been two runtime issues while I'm testing my
> current tex-test scripts on recent distro versions (i.e. with 2014
> texlive)ยน :
>
> 1. Context, as noted, is sometimes broken and craps out if you run
> 'context --version'.
>


Does strace give a handle on what's happening?

(Again, apols if is in thread - 'RTFT / FT,TG' is a reasonable reply;
will try to review thread more fully over weekend.)


> 2. My xindy test fails to produce an index.  For this, my


Ditto.


> last-released tex-test scripts at ~ken/ have a test called 'make
> encyclopedium'.  My current latest-and-greatest tests have been
> overhauled and expanded, but are not yet ready for an -rc release.
> For that test, my current changes do not really alter what the test
> does.  Deps in the released version are a desktop with fontconfig
> and a PDF viewer (mupdf or xpdf are adequate), and DejaVu (or gnu
> freefont).  Within tex, it uses lualatex so that it can use
> fontspec.
>
>  From memory, the command runs lualatex, xindy, lualatex on the
> supplied file.  If it works, the PDF has four pages (the fourth is
> the index), if not it only has three.
>
> [1.] Going back before 2013, with my _current_ scripts, things
> started to fall apart.  Luaotfload-tool seems to be a fairly recent
> addition, meaning that lualatex does not always find fontconfig
> fonts in my tests.
>


Thanks for taking the time to summarise/reiterate the above post's info
from thread. Will try to have a look shortly(-ish).


rgds,
akh


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