pdfjam in texlive-collection-binextra-20200406-1 doesn't work

[Ken Brown]

On 7/3/2020 7:22 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2020 19:23:58 +0900
> From: Lemures Lemniscati
> 
>> Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 09:46:46 -0400
>> From: Ken Brown via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>>
>>> On 5/27/2020 9:35 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> Hi !
>>>>
>>>> pdfjam in texlive-collection-binextra-20200406-1 doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>> Even a simple invocation such as
>>>>
>>>>       pdfjam a.pdf
>>>>
>>>> hangs while waiting for input from stdin.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> pdfjam 3.03 in TeX Live 2020 have got a major update since TeX Live 2019.
>>>> There was a new challenge to make pdfjam work with MiKTeX on Windows through Cygwin.
>>>> But it introduced a bug that make pdfjam fail to work with pure Cygwin TeX Live packages.
>>>> This is a situation.
>>>>
>>>> I made a pull-request to fix 10+ days ago, but it is not merged yet, and still I don't know whether it will be accepted or not:
>>>>
>>>>       https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam/pull/22
>>>>
>>>> So, here, I attach a file to replace /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/pdfjam/pdfjam for convenience.
>>>
>>> Thanks.  I'll keep an eye on the PR.  It it doesn't get merged within the next few weeks, I'll just apply your patch locally and make a new release.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Will you adopt a fixed version of pdfjam 3.03 for cygwin? (since the author seems too busy to merge it).
>>
>> (1) Please adopt a version https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam/pull/22 , at least.
>>
>> (2) Or, please adopt a version https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam/pull/26 , if you think the commit https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam/pull/26/commits/d4025732b0fca36950ae9de60b9bd256da0b7617 is favorable.

Thanks for the reminder.  I'll do this within the next few days.

Ken