Re: [Dev-luatex] Luatex beta 0.31.0

Yue Wang wrote:

Hi, Taco:

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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Yue Wang wrote:

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Hi, Taco:

Your patch works great! Now LuaTeX compiles fine on my system. Surprised, but happy. :-)

Thanks for solving this problem. Congratulations:) How did you fix it? just use a newer version of autotools?

I removed a few checks in configure.in that are not needed for use in luatex, and then I had to regenerate configure with my newer autotools installation. I do not understand which of those two actions actually fixed it.

well, the executable grows much larger now (6.8M stripped vs. 3.8 stripped) There is only 1.3M to catch up XeTeX's size ^_^ (well, luigi said : "it's new. it's powerful. it's luatex.", and I think we can also add "it's big" before "it's new")

Some two megabytes of the executable is static data from fontforge's Unicode library. In the previous version, I was able to cut that down to a quarter of its size by removing unnecessary data and dropping some of the CJK legacy encodings. Perhaps I will do that again when we reach the beta-release stage for 0.40. But perhaps not, because it makes importing new fontforge releases harder, and we could use a proper embedded Unicode handling library anyway. Best wishes, Taco