ghostscript issues
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Wed Jun 3 11:56:25 GMT 2020
On 6/2/2020 2:14 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 6/2/2020 8:12 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 6/2/2020 7:58 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:43:44 -0400
>>> From: Ken Brown via Cygwin
>>>
>>>> On 6/1/2020 11:26 AM, Thomas Bodine via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>> My favorite use of ghost script is to combine PDF's. I upgraded Cygwin this
>>>>> weekend, and ghost script fails to perform this task
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running this:
>>>>> Cygwin Setup version 2.904 (64 bit)
>>>>> base-cygwin 3.8-1
>>>>> ghostscript 9.52-1
>>>>> ghostscript-fonts-other 6.0-1
>>>>> Windows 10 Pro version 1909 build 18363.836
>>>>>
>>>>> When I run the script:
>>>>> $ gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=combine.pdf
>>>>> able.pdf baker.pdf charly.pdf
>>>>>>
>>>>> GPL Ghostscript 9.52 (2020-03-19)
>>>>> Copyright (C) 2020 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
>>>>> This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO WARRANTY:
>>>>> see the file COPYING for details.
>>>>> Processing pages 1 through 1.
>>>>> Page 1
>>>>> Error: /rangecheck in --restore--
>>>>> Operand stack:
>>>>> --dict:8/16(L)-- --dict:38/38(ro)(L)--
>>>>> Execution stack:
>>>>> %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- restore
>>>>> --nostringval-- 2
>>>>> %stopped_push --nostringval-- restore restore false 1
>>>>> %stopped_push
>>>>> 1990 1 3 %oparray_pop 1989 1 3 %oparray_pop 1977 1
>>>>> 3 %op
>>>>> array_pop 1978 1 3 %oparray_pop restore restore 2 1 1 restor
>>>>> e %for_pos_int_continue 1981 1 7 %oparray_pop restore restore 18
>>>>> 94 2 9 %oparray_pop
>>>>> Dictionary stack:
>>>>> --dict:737/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:1/20(G)-- --dict:80/200(L)--
>>>>> --dict:80/
>>>>> 200(L)-- --dict:135/256(ro)(G)-- --dict:318/325(ro)(G)-- --dict:33/64(L)--
>>>>> --dict:6/9(L)-- --dict:6/20(L)--
>>>>> Current allocation mode is local
>>>>> GPL Ghostscript 9.52: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>>>>
>>>> I can confirm this. As a workaround, downgrade ghostscript and libgs9 to
>>>> the previous version, 9.50-1, while I investigate.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the report.
>>>>
>>>> Ken
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> The first bad commit causing the issue seems to be 327dc89:
>>>
>>> http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=327dc8943c0aac1c7be7a1fb6e93346b61cd0900
>>>
>>
>> Thanks! I think the problem is here:
>>
>> @@ -234,18 +242,14 @@ CONTRIBINCLUDE="include $srcdir/contrib/contrib.mak"
>> INSTALL_CONTRIB="install-contrib-extras"
>>
>> if test x"$enable_contrib" = x; then
>> - if test x"$cross_compiling" = x"yes"; then
>> - enable_contrib=
>> - else
>> - case `uname` in
>> - MINGW*|MSYS*)
>> + case $host in
>> + *-mingw*|*-msys*|*-cygwin*)
>> AC_MSG_WARN([disabling contrib devices])
>> enable_contrib=no
>> ;;
>> *)
>> ;;
>> esac
>> - fi
>> fi
>>
>> if test x"$enable_contrib" != x"no"; then
>>
>> Do you want to send the obvious fix upstream or should I do it?
>
> Let's hold off on this. Just making this one change doesn't solve the problem.
> I've found several other commits that have mistakenly lumped cygwin with mingw
> and msys. I'm still working on it.
It turned out that fixing that one commit was all that was required, but the
hunk I quoted above wasn't the culprit.
I've just uploaded ghostscript 9.52-2, which should fix the problem
Ken
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