[XeTeX] Segmentation fault on OpenSuSE 10.3 64 bit

[Jonathan Kew]

On 17 Feb 2008, at 4:33 pm, Alexey Kryukov wrote:

> On Sunday 17 February 2008, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> It might help if you are able to build an updated binary from the
>> sources in the XeTeX repository (see the XeTeX/Linux page on
>> scripts.sil.org for information); there have been a number of bug-
>> fixes and improvements since the TeX Live release.
>
> Indeed, rebuilding XeTeX from SVN does help, although this solution
> obviously cannot be recommended, as it breaks normal package structure
> for a package-based districution

Right, this is not a general solution - but it does suggest that the  
underlying bug may be fixed, so that the TeX Live 2008 release will  
be better.

If you're able to test pre-release TL2008 binaries when they are  
available nearer the release date, that would be really helpful.

JK