On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 09:14:34PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to build the perfbook, but I always get a build failure while
> building the Dining Philosopher's images, as shown below:
>
> SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher4part-b.eps --> SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher4part-b.pdf
> SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher5.eps --> SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher5.pdf
> SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher5PEM.eps --> SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher5PEM.pdf
> SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher5TB.eps --> SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher5TB.pdf
> make: *** [Makefile:400: SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher5TB.pdf] Error 1
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make: *** [Makefile:400: SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher5.pdf] Error 1
> make: *** [Makefile:400: SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher4part-b.pdf] Error 1
> make: *** [Makefile:400: SMPdesign/DiningPhilosopher5PEM.pdf] Error 1
>
> Any ideas on how to debug this?
Apologies for the hassle!
This looks like an issue involving GhostScript and pstricks-base.
Quoting Akira Yokosawa below for workarounds.
Thanx, Paul
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This September saw updates in both GhostScript (9.53.0, now 9.53.3) and
pstricks-base (3.01).
It turned out this combination is the cause of the error you have encountered.
Update announcement of pstricks-base 3.01 [1] says:
This version has a modified pstricks.tex|.pro for GhostScript versions > 9.52
However, it does not work with ghostscript 9.53.x in perfbook's use cases.
So, one workaround would be to downgrade ghostscript to 9.52 [2].
Another option would be to downgrade pstricks-base to 2.90 (2018/12/17)
(or similar [3]), which is the version in Fedora's current TeX Live package.
But note that an old version of pstricks-base might be incompatible with
the up-to-date upstream TeX Live.
It may sound strange but pstrics-base 2.90 works with ghostscript 9.53.x
as far as transparency composition is not concerned.
Perfbook's figures don't use transparency composition.
[1]: pstricks-base 3.01 update announcement on CTAN:
https://www.ctan.org/ctan-ann/id/mailman.2839.1600699145.2548.ctan-ann@xxxxxxxx
[2]: GhostScript release downloads:
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases
[3]: pstricks-base (as of 2019/02/27)
https://www.texlive.info/tlnet-archive/2019/02/27/tlnet/archive/pstricks.tar.xz
GhostScript's compatibility-breaking "security" updates have caused a lot of
troubles these days...
Hopefully pstricks-base would catch up gs 9.53.x soon.
Thanks, Akira
