[XeTeX] fmutil throws error on installation

[Alexander Schultheiß]

Sorry, that was my bad! TeXLive has XeTeX already included :|. Sorry
for the hassle.

2010/8/30 Alexander Schultheiß <aschulth at googlemail.com>:
> Hey,
>
> I ran into a problem when installing XeTeX (v. 0.996) TeXLive 2009.
> The build script works w/o problem (after temporarily changing my PATH
> to include the TeX binaries) but when I try to install ($ shell
> ./install-xetex) I get the following error (two times):
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/i386-linux/fmtutil: line 341: 12667
> Aborted                 ${1+"$@"}
> Error: `xetex -ini  -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' failed
>
> ###############################################################################
> fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
> Visit the log files in directory
>  /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/web2c
> for details.
> ###############################################################################
>
> This is a summary of all `failed' messages:
> `xetex -ini  -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' failed
>
> That's actually the second error message; the first is identical only
> that '12667 Aborted' in the first line reads '12316 Aborted'. I
> visited the logfiles and grep'ed for errors (find /usr/.../web2c |
> xargs grep -i error) but nothing came up, except this:
> ./pdftex/texsis.log:\@balncErrormsg=\toks15, but it doesn't look like
> an error.
>
> The install script finished however. Yet, when I try to install
> xdvipdfmx (v. 0.4) the configure script doesn't find libkpathsea.a. I
> searched my system and found the libs in the xetex dir from where I
> started the xetex scripts. Thus my suspicion is that xetex didn't
> install correctly and xdvipdfmx consequently got thrown off. What did
> I miss?
>
> Thanks in advance
>