[OS X TeX] [WARNING - NOT VIRUS SCANNED] TeX Live 2016 Pretest

[Richard Koch]

Simon,

You didn’t read my entire message announcing the MacTeX pretest, because
it warned about exactly this problem, and explained how to solve it.

From that message:

5) There has been a dramatic restructuring of the LuaTeX code.
	This will make it much easier to maintain in coming years, but
	may cause some problems this year. In preliminary testing, LuaTeX
	compiled most straight LaTeX files. But it crashed when
	using Robertson’s fontspec, a crucial package when using system
	fonts. This crash can be avoided by adding a file
	~/Library/texmf/tex/luatex/luaotfload-blacklist.cnf containing
	one line of text:

	LastResort.ttf

	The programmers know of this bug, so it should be fixed in the
	release version of LuaTeX.

Dick Koch


> On Apr 17, 2016, at 7:40 AM, Simon Spiegel <simon at simifilm.ch> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 17.04.2016, at 03:02, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Folks,
>> 
>> 
>> TeX Live 2016 (and thus MacTeX-2016 and BasicTeX-2016) have
>> entered the pretest phase. For information on the pretest,
>> see
>> 
>> 	http://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html
>> 
>> As this TUG page states, “the TeX Live community greatly appreciates
>> all testing of TeX Live. But do not test with the expectation that
>> “everything should work perfectly” (it won’t), but rather “I’ll try this
>> out and see if I can help improve it.”
>> 
>> On the pretest site, the install packages for OS X are named
>> 
>> 	mactex-20160416.pkg
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> 	mactex-basictex20160416.pkg
>> 
>> These packages were just uploaded to TUG and will appear by Sunday
>> on tlpretest mirror sites listed on a link from the tlpretest page.
>> Both support OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and higher, on both Intel and PPC.
> 
> I installed MacTeX 2016 pretest today and there seems to be a serious problem with lua(la)tex and/or luaotfload. The following MWE currently fails to compile with lualatex:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \begin{document}
> Hello world.
> \end{document}
> 
> Luaotfload starts to generate a new database and then crashes. Here’s the end of the log:
> 
> luaotfload | db : Font names database not found, generating new one.
> luaotfload | db : This can take several minutes; please be patient.
> /Users/simi/Library/TeXShop/Engines/luaLaTeX.engine: line 4: 25245 Segmentation fault: 11  lualatex -shell-escape -synctex=1 "$1“
> 
> Simon
> 
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