Bug 356701

Summary:	app-text/texlive-core-2010 on 64-bit: patch for making xetex usable with unicode-math
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Faustus <orlovm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Alexis Ballier <aballier>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jmbsvicetto, tex
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Faustus 2011-02-27 15:50:20 UTC

There is a long-standing bug in 64-bit XeTeX, which makes it unusable with unicode-math (among other things). It's a serious issue which pops up a lot (e.g., search for "xetex unicode-math 64-bit). The reason was recently identified, see here: http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2011-January/019720.html

The fix is very simple: http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/attachments/20110104/61000bdd/attachment.bin (addition of "#include <w2c/c-auto.h>" to texlive-20100722-source/texk/web2c/xetexdir/XeTeX_ext.h).

I suggest adding this patch to the ebuild. Waiting for upstream to catch up may take years... I tested on amd64 - the problems are gone.

Comment 1 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2011-03-01 11:07:41 UTC

fixed, thanks