Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Norbert Preining wrote:
On Die, 09 Jan 2007, Hans Hagen wrote:
fixed in the beta already, i'll make a new current zip (has to do with changes in pdftex)
One question: I tested the release 2007-01-09 and the xetex bug is gone, but the return value of texexec still is 0, even when aleph breaks making a cont-en format. Does this mean that the beta version you are talking about is *not* the 2007-01-09 release, but the next release?
Hans, the same problem occurs in texsync, and I assume anything that is started by texmfstart.
I do not know what the proper ruby syntax is for perl's exit(), but in general, you should return "zero" for success, anything else for failure (normally programs use simply "one" in all cases).
If you do not call exit() yourself and do not call die() either (whatever the ruby equivalent of that is), the default return value is zero == success. That can be an enormous pain in the butt when texexec etc. are used inside scripts|makefiles.
the problem is that those scripting languages behave differently (and to be honest i never use return codes because i never write complex os dependent scripts but package everything in e.g. ruby so that i can run everywhere; return codes is alien teritory for me); taco and i need to figure it out somehow Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------