Re: broken mpost binary from TeXLive

[Alexander Kobel]

On 09/04/2013 11:40 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > As far as TL goes, there were no releases of mpost between TL'12 and
> > TL'13.  We did not do any bug-fix binaries in 2012 (and I sincerely
> > hope we never have to again).  So all I can say is that mpost 1.802,
> > the original TL 2013 binary, has the bug.  The TL'12 version was
> > 1.504.
>
> Thanks.  So it probably makes sense to exclude
>
>    1.504 < mpost --version < 1.803
>
> in the configure script.
>
> Julien, can you take care of that?

Hm. Missed that issue earlier.
This whole thing is very suspicious in the sense that mpost 1.803 
segfaults on ARM architectures (from Arch Linux' texlive-bin). The same 
version (as announced by the package repositories' numbers) works fine 
on my x86_64 Arch environment.
I placed a report under
  https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/issues/550
since I assumed it to be an Arch Linux on ARM-only problem, but now I'm 
curious whether part of the bug survived...
I probably won't be able to test until next week, but I'll investigate a 
bit more then (and probably try to contact the TeXLive gurus).


Best,
Alexander