On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 12:02:08PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: > >From f44b769bdf6da275a09ae3abe0decc835ba65875 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:26:02 +0900 > Subject: [PATCH] Require updating a2ping to 2.83p on older distos > > Recent security fixes to Ghostscript [1] on Ubuntu Trusty and > Xenial broke a2ping 2.77p. > > This change removes conditional of "Ghostscript 9.22 and later" in > checking a2ping's version, and report error if 2.77p is found. > Also update FAQ-BUILD.txt to provide nicer instructions to update. > > [1]: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ > > Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> Great catch, thank you!!! Applied and pushed. Thanx, Paul > --- > FAQ-BUILD.txt | 21 ++++++++++++++------- > Makefile | 6 ++---- > 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/FAQ-BUILD.txt b/FAQ-BUILD.txt > index 9fb3b68..336ab71 100644 > --- a/FAQ-BUILD.txt > +++ b/FAQ-BUILD.txt > @@ -53,8 +53,9 @@ > texlive-science texlive-fonts-extra > xfig inkscape graphviz fig2ps > > - You might need to fetch a version of a2ping which is > - compatible with Ghostscript 9.22. See #7 below. > + You need to fetch a version of a2ping which is > + compatible with updated Ghostscript (not limited to > + Ubuntu Bionic). See #7 below. > > On Fedora 28 and 27, installing the following set of > packages suffices: > @@ -86,14 +87,20 @@ > > A. Please see #5 above. > > -7. Building perfbook aborts with error "a2ping version conflict". > +7. Building perfbook aborts with error "Your need to update a2ping". > What can I do? > > - A. Updating a2ping can resolve the build error if you > - have Ghostscript 9.22 or later. Compatible a2ping > - (2.83p) is available at: > + A. a2ping 2.77p has become incompatible with up-to-date > + Ghostscript on most Linux distributions since September > + 2018 due to security fixes backported from Ghostscript > + 9.22 and later. A compatible a2ping (2.83p) is available > + at: > https://www.ctan.org/pkg/a2ping > - It is included in TeX Live 2018 or later. > + > + Copy "a2ping.pl" as "a2ping" into a directory which > + precedes /usr/bin in your PATH setting. > + > + a2ping 2.83p is included in TeX Live 2018 or later. > > 8. When I try to build perfbook, it hangs after printing a line > reading "pdflatex 1". How can I fix this? > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index 72865d7..4810812 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -75,9 +75,7 @@ STEELFONTID := $(shell fc-list | grep -i steel | grep -c Steel) > ifdef A2PING > A2PING_277P := $(shell a2ping --help 2>&1 | grep -c "2.77p,") > ifeq ($(A2PING_277P),1) > -GS_VER := $(shell gs --version) > -A2PING_GSCNFL := $(shell env printf "%05.2f\n%05.2f\n" $(GS_VER) 9.22 | \ > - sort | head -1 | grep -c "09.22") > +A2PING_GSCNFL := 1 > else > A2PING_GSCNFL := 0 > endif > @@ -216,7 +214,7 @@ ifndef A2PING > $(error $< --> $@: a2ping not found. Please install it) > endif > ifeq ($(A2PING_GSCNFL),1) > - $(error a2ping version conflict. See #7 in FAQ-BUILD.txt) > + $(error You need to update a2ping. See #7 in FAQ-BUILD.txt) > endif > @cp $< $<i > @sh $(FIXANEPSFONTS) $<i > -- > 2.7.4 >
