Hello! Alas, perfbook cant build for me: -- Fedora 32/x86_64 -- TexLive 2020 current from TexArchive (not Fedora packages) -- ghostscript 9.53.3 from Fedora package -- perfbook up-to-date If I remember correctly last PASS for me was not early than 2020-september-28 first FAIL for me was not later than 2020-november-03 clean build $ cp -Rp ~/src/egit/perfbook/ . $ cd perfbook/ $ make sh ./utilities/gen_snippet_d.sh ... SMPdesign/CPUvsEnet.eps --> SMPdesign/CPUvsEnet.pdf SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher4part-b.tex --> SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher4part-b.eps sh utilities/mpostcheck.sh SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher4part-b.eps --> SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher4part-b.pdf make: *** [Makefile:400: SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher4part-b.pdf] Error 1 manual run last cmd $ a2ping --below --hires --bboxfrom=compute-gs SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher4part-b.eps SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher4part-b.pdf /run/media/dima/TexLive/bin/x86_64-linux/a2ping: warning: BBox discovery was not successful %%%% WARNING: Transparency operations ignored - need to use -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY Error: /undefined in .setopacityalpha Operand stack: 1.0 Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1974 1 3 %oparray_pop 1973 1 3 %oparray_pop 1961 1 3 %oparray_pop 1817 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:738/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:152/200(L)-- --dict:180/300(L)-- --dict:38/200(L)-- --dict:127/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local GPL Ghostscript 9.53.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 /run/media/dima/TexLive/bin/x86_64-linux/a2ping: closing gs filter: 256 Thank you, Dmitry ср, 30 дек. 2020 г. в 08:39, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hello! > > Release Candidate 1 of the Second Edition is now available, and I have > started a prototype blog entry: https://paulmck.livejournal.com/59935.html > Please let me know of any omissions or errors in this blog entry. I expect > to post it to my social media accounts in a few days. > > And thank you all for your interest in and contributions to perfbook! > > Thanx, Paul