> 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 > ??en > -- -- -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
