OK, MacTex worked much better for me, meaning that this time it did not hang when I attempted to install it. However, once installed, it complains that it is missing xcrun, whatever that might be. My thought is to get a release out, then see what can be done about making this build on MacOS. Seem reasonable? Hey, I said I had access to MacOS, not that I was at all competent at installing software on it. ;-) Thanx, Paul On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 03:36:20PM +0000, Snir, Marc wrote: > I used MacTex to install Latex and mostly used Brew to install Linux tools > > On Jun 27, 2022, at 10:19 AM, Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.com/search?q=latex*on*macos&oq=latex*on*macos&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l9.3869j1j7&client=ubuntu&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8__;KysrKw!!DZ3fjg!4_j5YLKDbzfq9B7h6-F8zxtMnksVmYkZGrTI8UNScPy0Hqxl4_ieTdmHu_WSoG9aMUBWzuwNnob4gw$ > > 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 > > [...] >
