Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:49:21 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru Subject: Re: make in /usr/doc Message-ID: <20031117224921.C4311@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20031118.053753.70166109.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>; from hrs@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:37:53AM %2B0900 References: <20031109151006.G85714@woozle.rinet.ru> <20031118.013353.78764065.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> <20031117192553.GF385@submonkey.net> <20031118.053753.70166109.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>
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--TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:37:53AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: >=20 > I think that is not a bug in a sense. We use groff (grops) to convert > .pic to .ps, but its default paper size is US letter, I guess. > So ps2epsi needs to accept US letter size by default; otherwise, an error > can occur. > It is a bug because it crashes since we upgraded Groff, it's not the 1st time a workaround is needed for GS. > Another workaround is adding "-P -p -P a4" to groff's flag as the > following patch does. With the flags the build should work fine > without regardless to A4=3Dyes. I am not sure if this always works, but > could you try this? If it works properly, I will commit it. >=20 It's a better solution (I did not tested it btw, but it seems Ok). Please add a comment in the file to explain the change is a workaround to avoid crash of ps2epsi. Btw if you check that file you will note another GS bug workaround :) Marc --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Pour information voir http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE/uUJf81T1MWxkgcoRAh/5AJ0c7GfEktmqeksVDF3V6iaWTbIDUQCdHtRn +5Fz/l5ClApR2pRHJb42U6k= =ge66 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc--
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