Hi Paul,
[Cc 0/8 and 8/8 to Leo, Patch 8/8 touches gitlab-ci.yml]
Frequent crashes of Inkscape I encountered in 2023, which was mitigated
in commit f307e19f2be0 ("Prevent inkscape from interacting with desktop
manager"), made me look into alternative SVG --> PDF converters.
It turns out that recent versions of rsvg-convert work reasonably well
for perfbook. By "recent versions", I mean 2.52.5 and 2.57.x.
rsvg-convert is a light-weight CLI command and is much faster than inkscape.
Sequential SVG --> PDF conversion time I get from
"make cleanfigs-svg; env time make figs":
elapsed
Inkscape: 21.45s
rsvg-convert: 6.05s
So patches 1/8--4/8 add rules in Makefile for using rsvg-convert if it
is recent enough.
One caveat: There is a SVG cartoon drawn by an ancient version of Inkscape,
for which very recent versions of rsvg-convert produce distorted background
of outlined text.
Patch 5/8 retouches the cartoon and put a SVG compatible with librsvg as
cartoons/r-2023-Memory-barriers.svg.
Patches 6/8 and 7/8 adjust FAQ-BUILD and Dockerfiles accordingly.
Patch 8/8 updates gitlab-ci.yml. It needs an explicit ACK or Tested-by:
from Leo before applying.
Finally, this series wouldn't affect those of you who don't have
rsvg-convert.
Thanks, Akira
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Akira Yokosawa (8):
Makefile: Add rules to use rsvg-convert for SVG --> PDF conversion
Makefile: Don't use rsvg-convert < 2.57
Makefile: Allow rsvg-convert 2.52
Makefile: Use rsvg-convert anyway if no inkscape is found
cartoons: Retouch r-2014-Memory-barrier.svg
FAQ-BUILD: List package for rsvg-convert in package lists
docker: Add packages for rsvg-convert
gitlab-ci.yml: Install librsvg instead of inkscape
FAQ-BUILD.txt | 23 +-
Makefile | 48 +-
cartoons/r-2023-Memory-barrier.svg | 1130 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
cpu/overview.tex | 2 +-
docker/Dockerfile | 4 +-
docker/Dockerfile.fedora | 7 +-
utilities/gitlab-ci.yml | 2 +-
7 files changed, 1198 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 cartoons/r-2023-Memory-barrier.svg
base-commit: 1ea46c6d43475fbdf97404dec28a58036d505bc3
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2.34.1
