[tex-live] Win32: xelatex -0.999.4 failure to process sample2e.tex

[Jonathan Kew]

On 2 Aug 2008, at 6:35 PM, George N. White III wrote:

> On my Win32/wine even xetex story fails:
>
> C:\Testing>xetex story
> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.4 (Web2C 7.5.7)
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (c:/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/story.tex
> ! Emergency stop.
> <recently read> O
>
> l.7 O
>     nce upon a time, in a distant
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on story.log.
>

What does the story.log file show?

Akira, could there have been some kind of problem with the W32 build?  
The latest code seems to run fine elsewhere, and I can't see why the  
(tiny) changes in 0.999.4 might have introduced this issue.

Jonathan

>
>
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org>  
> wrote:
>> On 2 Aug 2008, at 5:27 PM, Norbert Preining wrote:
>>
>>> On Sa, 02 Aug 2008, George N. White III wrote:
>>>>
>>>> C:\Testing>xelatex sample2e
>>>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.4 (Web2C 7.5.7)
>>>
>>> 0.999.4 was a very recent update, Jonathan, is there something  
>>> broken
>>> ...
>>
>> Oh dear; I hope not!
>>
>> It runs fine for me:
>>
>>> jonathan-pro:~ jonathan$ xelatex sample2e
>>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.4 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>>> %&-line parsing enabled.
>>> entering extended mode
>>> (/Users/jonathan/texlive/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ 
>>> sample2e.tex
>>> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
>>> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,
>>> dumylang, noh
>>> yphenation, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, ancientgreek,
>>> ibycus, ar
>>> abic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech,  
>>> danish,
>>> dutc
>>> h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german,  
>>> ngerman,
>>> mono
>>> greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish,
>>> italian, la
>>> tin, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese,
>>> romanian, rus
>>> sian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish,  
>>> turkish,
>>> ukenglis
>>> h, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
>>> (/Users/jonathan/texlive/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ 
>>> article.cls
>>> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document  
>>> class
>>> (/Users/jonathan/texlive/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ 
>>> size10.clo))
>>> No file sample2e.aux.
>>> (/Users/jonathan/texlive/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ 
>>> omscmr.fd) [1]
>>> [2] [3] (./sample2e.aux) )
>>> Output written on sample2e.pdf (3 pages).
>>> Transcript written on sample2e.log.
>>> jonathan-pro:~ jonathan$
>>
>> but of course this isn't the W32 build. (I didn't even know that  
>> had been
>> updated already.)
>>
>> I'll try to find time to look at it more later this evening....
>>
>> JK
>>
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia