[OS X TeX] biber error

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 2, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Alan Munn wrote:

> Hi, since Herb mentioned biber in his most recent update of latexmk, I have a question about installing it.  I installed it using instructions from Joseph Wright's blog <http://www.texdev.net/tag/tex-live/>, by doing:
> 
> tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010 install biber
> This installed it in /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin/biber, which isn't in any of the normal paths, but that can easily be fixed.
> However, when I tried to run it I get the following error:
> e.g.
> $ /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin/biber
> dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022 Trace/BPT trap
> 
> I get exactly the same error with a version downloaded directly from the biber web page:
> <http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/>
> What's going on, and how can I fix it?
> 
> This is on a Intel MacBook running 10.5.8
> Alan
> 
> -- 
> Alan Munn
> amunn at gmx.com
> 

Howdy,

Hmmm... It looks as though the biber you have is a 64bit version that will only run under OS X 10.6 so I'd expect a problem trying to run under 10.5. Looking at that repository there doesn't seem to be a version for Universal-Darwin so you may be out of luck.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)