Finally, it seems that I have the problem again and it is connected to this
that I am configuring the place where MiKTeX places the smylinks to the
executables to a place different than the default.
On MACOS the default place is /usr/local/bin.
Because I am using TeXDist in order to have several TeX distros on the same
machine I reconfigured this place to
/Library/TeX/Distributions/MiKTeX.texdist/Contents/texbin using the MiKTeX
console / Administrator / Settings / Directories / Link target directory.
V.
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De : Vincent Belaïche <vincent....@hotmail.fr>
Envoyé : vendredi 9 octobre 2020 22:19
À : MikTeX user group list <miktex-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Objet : RE: Problems with kpsewhich on MACOS
Just to say that I have solved my problem as follows:
1) open the MiKTeX console
2) select administrator mode
3) go to cleanup pannel (select it on the left choice list)
4) select restore « factory default »
Now things work again as expected, but the sad news is that I had to reinstall
a few packages…
Vincent.
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De : Vincent Belaïche
Envoyé : vendredi 9 octobre 2020 17:45
À : MikTeX user group list <miktex-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Objet : Problems with kpsewhich on MACOS
Hello,
I have MiKTeX installed on MACOS, and it seems that for some reason kpsewhich
got broken, so the whole install is broken indeed.
I already had that sort of problem, the root cause it that MiKTeX uses some
dynamic library with a name that is versionned instead of asking for the latest
version, so when there is a system update sometimes it happens that MiKTeX gets
broken.
So if I type kpsewhich I get:
ERROR: collate_byname<char>::collate_byname failed to construct for
Sorry, but kpsewhich did not succeed.
And if I try to compile a document with content
\documentclass{minimal}\begin{document}Hello.\end{document}, then I get:
ERROR: collate_byname<char>::collate_byname failed to construct for
Sorry, but pdflatex did not succeed.
libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type
MiKTeX::Core::MiKTeXException: MiKTeX encountered an internal error.
Abort trap: 6
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