On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 07:56:28 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > 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. I was confused. perl is perl. There is no GNU or BSD flavor... Thanks, Akira >> >> Good luck! > > I will need it. ;-) > > Thanx, Paul > >> Thanks, Akira >> >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Thanx, Paul >>> >> [...]
