breakurl doesn't work with xelatex

Question

I'm trying to use the breakurl package with xelatex but can't get even the following minimum working example to compile.

\documentclass{article}
% dvips added as per breakurl manual
% also fails without it
\usepackage[dvips]{hyperref}
\usepackage{breakurl}
\begin{document}
\end{document}

Compile with xelatex and you get the following error:

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \headerps@out 
                         {/burl@stx null def /BU.S { /burl@stx null def } de...
l.311 }

Is this package just incompatible or am I missing some special incantation?

Answer 1

You don't need it. Only the dvips driver has problems to break links and needs breakurl. xdvipdfmx (used by xetex) works without it:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\textwidth=2cm
\begin{document}
\url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/218196/breakurl-doesnt-work-with-xelatex}
\end{document}