2011/10/20 Petr Tomasek <toma...@etf.cuni.cz>: > 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 TL is linked statically with the exception of tools dependent on fontconfig (xetex, luatex, xdvipdfmx).
> That's why I always compiled XeTeX from the SVN, but even that is broken since > about 2 years :-/ > I have only a problem with Nafees fonts, xdvipdfmx cannot find them in CentOS 4 and 5 while everything works fine in Fedora 13. I tried with TL 2008, 2009, 20010 and 2011, the result is the same and even Khaled's advices did not help me to make it work. > P.T. > > -- > Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> > Jabber: but...@jabbim.cz > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > EA 355:001 DU DU DU DU > EA 355:002 TU TU TU TU > EA 355:003 NU NU NU NU NU NU NU > EA 355:004 NA NA NA NA NA > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex