On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 11:52:18PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 07:11:06 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 07:32:29PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: > [...] > >> > >> For the record: > >> > >> It turns out that Marc attempted the build under macOS 12.4, which > >> resulted in a corrupted autodate.tex. > >> It means utilities/autodate.sh doesn't work as expected under macOS. > >> > >> The cause might be the difference of primitive tools such as "date", > >> "sed", and "grep". We assume those from GNU, while macOS has those > >> of BSD origin. > >> > >> As I don't have a macOS system at my disposal, I can't help further. > >> > >> (I was surprised to know that the build scripts worked without a fatal > >> error until the first run of pdflatex.) > > > > In theory, it is possible to use the "findutils" and "brew" commands to > > set up gnu utilities on MacOS, and to do so such that your PATH variable > > can be used to choose whether the default is the MacOS versions or the > > gnu versions. Or so it says here: > > > > https://www.google.com/search?q=latex+on+macos&oq=latex+on+macos&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l9.3869j1j7&client=ubuntu&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 > > > > I do have an old MacOS system, but it is at home and I am on travel. > > How old is it? :-) About three years, but running a current MacOS. > > I would need to install LaTeX on it (last time I tried, the installation > > hung), but Marc proved that it is possible to actually install it. ;-) If > > I can pass that hurdle, I will try making perfbook use the gnu utilities. > > > > Or is this where someone tells me that LaTeX on MacOS make use of > > scripts that rely on the MacOS variants of these commands? ;-) > > I don't think so. > If you can make scripts under utilities/ behave as expected, > "make" should work. > > Except: > > Some of perl scripts have shebang lines of: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > , and are invoked directly from recipes in Makefile. > You need to change them to: > > #!/usr/bin/env perl > > , so that your PATH setting is respected. You might need similar > tweaks for scripts of other languages. > > Good luck! I will need it. ;-) Thanx, Paul > Thanks, Akira > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thanx, Paul > > > [...]
