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? :-) > 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! Thanks, Akira > > Thoughts? > > Thanx, Paul > [...]
