[OS X TeX] mactex pretest

[Richard Koch]

Andre,

The pretest binaries run fine here, but perhaps there is still a problem.
Could you please send me your testmars18.tex file so I can test it here
on El Capitan and see if there is still a problem. Thanks for testing.

Another user asked if you had set TeXLive-2018 as your default distribution,
and if you had set symbolic links. If you are testing MacTeX-2018, then these
would be done automatically.

It could be useful to update using TeX Live Utility as suggested by Herbert
Schulz. But I'd feel much better if I could see your test file.

Dick Koch
koch at uoregon.edu


> On Mar 16, 2018, at 1:25 AM, André Valentin <ajj47.valentin at orange.fr> wrote:
> 
> (Sorry: the subject line in my preceding post should have been as in this one!)
> 
> I’m running OSX El Capitan on iMac (24 inches mid 2007)
> 
> I’ve downloaded mactex-20180304.pkg and installed.
> The installation was OK, but 
> with a small test file, I did the following in terminal:
> 
> /usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-darwin/pdflatex testmars18.tex
> 
> and I got:
> 
> Illegal instruction: 4
> 
> If I replace /2018/ in the above by /2017/, all is working as expected.
> 
> So the binaries in 2018 don’t work?
> 
> I was just testing…
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