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List:       fink-users
Subject:    Re: [Fink-users] Problems with dvips in texlive-base-0.20140523-5
From:       Stefan Bruda <stefan () bruda ! ca>
Date:       2017-10-01 2:32:00
Message-ID: 22992.21408.83882.578169 () godel ! bruda ! ca
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Hello,

At 23:58 +0200 on 2017-9-30 jfbu wrote:
 >
 > > This being said, dvips continues to be broken on my system.  I have
 > > tested it with the simplest LaTeX file I could think of namely, the
 > > following:
 > > 
 > > \documentclass{article}
 > > \begin{document}
 > > test
 > > \end{document}
 > > 
 > > The produced DVI is fine, dvipdfm converts it into a PDF just fine,
 > > yet dvips still chokes:
 > > 
 > > < godel:~ > dvips a1.dvi
 > > This is dvips(k) 5.994 Copyright 2014 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
 > > ' TeX output 2017.09.30:1642' -> a1.ps
 > > Abort trap: 6
 > 
 > Could that be related to this MacPorts ticket?
 > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/53974

Spot on again!  With the patch from this ticket dvips appears to be as
good as new.

Thank you so very much.

Best regard,
Stefan

P.S. For the record, I modified texlive.info as follows:

--- /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/text/texlive.info	2017-09-13 09:31:57.000000000 -0400
+++ /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/texlive.info	2017-09-30 21:55:43.000000000 -0400
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Package: texlive%type_pkg[-nox]
 Type: -nox (boolean)
 Version: 0.20140523
-Revision: 5
+Revision: 6
 GCC: 4.0
 Description: Bundle package for TeX Live
 Depends: %N-base (= %v-%r), texinfo, debianutils, texi2html
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@
 Source4-MD5: 720aa3dfd0e8d42524f28cdf4bd7247c
 Source5: ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2012/texlive-20120701-source.tar.xz
 Source5-MD5: 1d38be7dac26440fd022a4708f454a2b
+PatchFile: texlive.patch
+PatchFile-MD5: c6df3d8ab336f1048dbd5d2849bf08c4
 NoSourceDirectory: true
 UseMaxBuildJobs: true
 PatchScript: <<
@@ -120,6 +122,8 @@
    # autoconf2.6ish patch for modern XQuartz paths
    perl -pi -e "s|/usr/lpp/Xamples|/opt/X11|" $autoconf_configure
  done
+
+ %{default_script}
 <<
 ConfigureParams: <<
  --with-banner-add="/Fink" \

with the texlive.patch looking like this:

--- src.orig/texlive/texk/dvipsk/color.c	2017-09-30 19:42:25.000000000 -0400
+++ src/texlive/texk/dvipsk/color.c	2017-09-30 19:42:47.000000000 -0400
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
    struct colorpage *next;
    integer boploc; /* we use the bop loc as a page indicator */
    char *bg;
-   char colordat[2];
+   char *colordat;
 } *colorhash[COLORHASH];
 static char *cstack, *csp, *cend, *bg;
 /*
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
    for (i=0; i<COLORHASH; i++) {
       for (p=colorhash[i]; p; p = q) {
          q = p->next;
+         free(p->colordat);
          free(p);
       }
       colorhash[i] = 0;
@@ -216,7 +217,8 @@
       }
    } else {
       p = (struct colorpage *)mymalloc((integer)
-                  (strlen(cstack) + sizeof(struct colorpage) + MAXCOLORLEN));
+                  (sizeof(struct colorpage)));
+      p->colordat = mymalloc(strlen(cstack) + MAXCOLORLEN + 2);
       p->next = colorhash[h];
       p->boploc = pageloc;
       strcpy(p->colordat, cstack);

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