[OS X TeX] xindy hangs on ARM

[Richard Koch]

> On May 1, 2021, at 9:09 AM, Alexander Krumeich <alexander.krumeich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Richard and Herbert,
> 
> thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I managed to create a MWE
> which you find attached. You'll also find a .latexmkrc. The weird
> thing is that it compiles on the first and maybe second run. Repeated
> runs of "latexmk -c && latexmk" however will put the process in the
> hang state.
> 
> Richard, I feel your pain when it comes to compiling LISP. I tried it
> a year ago when I wanted to build xindy for Alpine Linux. Whole
> different story, but I never managed to compile CLISP. What made me
> wonder, though, is that this sample and my production project run fine
> in MacTeX 2020 under ARM.
> 
> Compare the output of "xindy --version" for 2020 and 2021:
> 
> MacTeX 2020:
> 
> xindy release: 2.5.1
> xindy script version: 1.18
> xindy kernel version: 3.0
> CLISP version 2.49.50 (2017-03-19) (built on richards-mac-pro.local [10.0.1.14])
>    architecture: X86_64
> 
> MacTeX 2021:
> 
> xindy release: 2.5.1
> xindy script version: 1.18
> xindy kernel version: 3.0
> CLISP version 2.49 (2010-07-07) (built on richards-macbook-pro-4.local
> [10.0.0.79])
>    architecture: X86_64
> 
> It looks like that the CLISP version used for MacTeX 2020 is slightly
> newer than the one in 2021. Odd, but there build dates are seven years
> apart. Do you still have the 2.49.50 version? Maybe if you compiled
> xindy against that version it would work.
> 
> All the best
> 
>   Alexander
> 
> On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 5:07 PM Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Alexander,
>> 
>> Xindy is one of only two binaries in TeX Live 2021 with only Intel code. Here's the reason.
>> 
>> Xindy requires Lisp to build, although the Lisp is not required to run the program. Long ago, I compiled Lisp for x86_64. Later a new version of Lisp was released, but I couldn't make it work with xindy, so I continued to use the original version.
>> 
>> This summer when compiling for Arm, everything was a breeze except compiling Lisp. Google searches showed that others also had problems compiling Lisp for Arm. So universal-darwin in TeX Live 2021 only has an Intel version of xindy.
>> 
>> Here comes the bad news. I compile binaries for TeX Live and I produce TeXShop, but I don't think it is my duty to figure out how to compile Lisp on Arm. Thus if there is a problem, I'll only fix it if you or someone else can provide a web page explaining exactly and mechanically how to compile Lisp using the standard XCode compilers. An instruction which begins "first download and install CMake ..." won't cut it.
>> 
>> Richard Koch
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