[XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

[Petr Tomasek]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 03:14:56PM +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:43:57 -0700 schrieb Chris Travers:
> 
> > This has all been very helpful.  At least I have things narrowed down
> > a bit here:
> > 
> > 
> > # fmtutil-sys --byfmt xelatex
> > 
> 
> > ! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!.
> > l.545 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!}
> 
> > 
> > Any idea of what I do about this?
> 
> The best is to get and install a new TeXLive 2011 with newer latex
> sources. You can also try to fool latex by changing your pc date. 

No, it is actually the worst thing to do. Most Linux distributions have their
own packaging system and using alien blob (like the TeXLive) has all
the disadvantages it can: possbily breaking compatibility if some system
library is updated, not upgrading this blob using system tools if
securty vulnerabilities are found can lead to serious security problems, etc...

That's why I always compiled XeTeX from the SVN, but even that is broken since
about 2 years :-/

P.T.

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