gmane.comp.tex.tex-k

Re: resubmit problem

Karl Berry — 2013-04-26T21:39:11

    I got following WARNING when resubmitting the manuscript # A13.02.0055R

This is the address for reporting bugs in TeX software.  Not an
editorial address for any journal.

    ** WARNING ** -2 memory objects still allocated
    You may want to report this to tex-k-WUdSmCIlby8< at >public.gmane.org"

This warning is surely irrelevant to whatever problem you are having
with submitting.

Best,
karl

resubmit problem

2013-04-26T19:21:47

Dear Editor,

I got following WARNING when resubmitting the manuscript # A13.02.0055R. Would this be the reason that we couldn't replace Fig.14 in merged File, though the PDF file of individual o. Figure -14 is updated correctly . Could you please help me to have a check and replace it?


"c:/temp/latex/JCP_star.dvi -> c:/temp/latex/JCP_star.pdf
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]
1661796 bytes written

** WARNING ** -2 memory objects still allocated
You may want to report this to tex-k-WUdSmCIlby8< at >public.gmane.org"

Thank you very much
Kind regards,
Li

Re: a question about tlmgr on Windows

Norbert Preining — 2013-04-23T22:12:31

That is surprising that this does not work, since it should also
replace the tlperl ...

Did you get the update-tlmgr-latest.exe from the tlpretest directory?


Ocuh ... you replaced *ALL* of it ... that is not good, because there is
also the file
texlive.tlpdb
which is *specific* for your installation ...


Well, at what prize?

Norbert

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Re: a question about tlmgr on Windows

Andrew Komornicki — 2013-04-23T18:35:06

Hi 
 
thank you for the response.   I tried the fix that involved the
update-tlmgr-latest.exe install as this is the suggested method for disaster
recovery on the  www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html pages 
This is Perl that comes with TeXlive. 
  
I can share with you that I unziped the current install-tl.zip archive 
and replaced the ./tlpkg  directory under my \texlive and tlmgr does work. 
I no longer get Perl errors.  It turns out that there are other problems,
but the Perl problem is solved.  
 
regards,
andrew 


At 12:54 AM 4/23/2013, Norbert Preining wrote:

Re: a question about tlmgr on Windows

Norbert Preining — 2013-04-23T07:54:01

Hi Andrew,

On Mo, 22 Apr 2013, Andrew Komornicki wrote:

THis is not the right forum for tlmgr ...


That is something which is hard to debug, if perl does not work,
something in your Windows installation is broken. We cannot conjure
up solutions for elementary things like broken perls.

You can try to debug perl as installed in 
...path..to..your..texlive..\tlpkg\tlperl
specifically bin tlperl\bin\perl.exe

But you might have some background tasks (virus scanner? intrusion detection)
whatever running that kills the perl process, which creates the problem.

ANother option, but needs a bit more experience, is:
* get the latest tlperl.win32.tar.xz, best from the tlpretest
* backup your current tlpkg\tlperl
* unpack it in ...\texlive\ (it contains the files in he hierarchy tlpkg\tlperl)

and hope that this gives you a better/working perl.

More than that, I guess, we cannot do.

Norbert

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a question about tlmgr on Windows

Andrew Komornicki — 2013-04-23T05:53:10

Karl and friends, 
 
I have a question and a problem relating to tlmgr. 

As a long time user of TeX and friends I installed Texlive 2009 in 2010 on my 
then new Win XP laptop.  More recently I realized that tlmgr has ceased to 
function.  Quite simply, whenever I try to invoke it, Windows responds with 
the message:  
          perl.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. 
          We are sorry for the inconvenience.
 
The current tug.org/texlive/tlmgr pages indicate that there is a fix for 
disaster recovery.  Specifically it suggests to download update-tlmgr-latest.exe 
 
I have done that.  running that executable produces that same message, that 
perl.exe has encountered a problem...........  

is there a simpler fix, save for a clean install of TeXlive (??)   
I really like my present installation, and have been very productive with this. 
any suggestions are very much appreciated.  
 
regards,
andrew

Re: About Kpathsea

Arthur Reutenauer — 2013-04-17T18:42:11

  I am guessing it has to do with the name of the first addressee in the original post ;-)

Arthur

Re: About Kpathsea

Norman Gray — 2013-04-17T18:40:15

Greetings.

On 2013 Apr 17, at 20:32, Jay F Shachter <jay-Exu9ovrR/bTZk/BzEJu9kw< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


It's 'Karl's path-searching library', but (as I understand it) crammed into the eight characters mandated by the DOS filesystems which were still ubiquitous when it first appeared.

Norman

Re: About Kpathsea

Jay F Shachter — 2013-04-17T19:32:04

Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that =?UTF-8?B?5qiK5pm654yb?= would write on Wed Apr 17 05:25:40 2013:


The "pathsea" stands for "path search".  Someone else will have to
tell us what the "k" signifies.


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About Kpathsea

樊智猛 — 2013-04-17T10:25:40

Dear Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and Taco Hoekwater,

I am an user of LaTeX in China. I hava a question that may sounds silly: 
why Kpathsea is called Kpathsea?, is it a word in Dutch, German, or not 
a word at all?

Re: Building standalone kpathsea

Oleg Parashchenko — 2013-04-15T20:47:52

Hello Norman,

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:53:28 +0100
Norman Gray <norman-+H2n7Y2hltEAEUqnUvtfrg< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


However, you might need additional setup:

http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-k/2010-April/002153.html
http://uucode.com/blog/2010/04/28/running-tex-tools-from-non-standard-locations/

Re: Building standalone kpathsea

Norman Gray — 2013-04-15T20:57:13

Oleg, hello.

On 2013 Apr 15, at 21:47, Oleg Parashchenko <olpa-1YK4M1/OtK3QT0dZR+AlfA< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


Aha!  Thanks for that.

I have in fact been struggling with this very problem.  I thought that all I had to do was to to invoke kpse_set_program_name with the path to a program which _does_ live in the 'standard' place (for example /usr/texbin/tex on my platform).  That is, I 'lie' to the kpathsea library about where my program actually is.  I'm sure that did work in an earlier version of my program, but it doesn't seem to quite work, now, and I've still got to get to the bottom of why not.  I'm not quite stuck yet, but I'll bear in mind your trick of setting the environment variables.

Best wishes,

Norman

Re: Building standalone kpathsea

Norman Gray — 2013-04-15T15:53:28

Karl and all, hello.

On 2013 Apr 14, at 22:52, Karl Berry wrote:


A good point.  Just for the archive, therefore, the procedure for building libkpathsea from this source is just to download, for example, <texlive-20120701-source.tar> then 

cd texk/kpathsea
./configure
make
make install

Simplicity itself!

Best wishes,

Norman

Re: Building standalone kpathsea

Karl Berry — 2013-04-14T21:52:03

Hi Norman,

    You can check out the entire tree (svn co
    svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source) but that takes a _long_
    while.  Or you can check out just the required bits:

Or you can use rsync to extract whatever pieces are desired:
http://tug.org/texlive/svn/

    http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/base.zip

That will get you the latest release (approximately).  Quite different
from the current development sources retrieved by svn/rsync.  If that's
what's wanted, you might as well get the *-source-* tarball we make as
part of the TL release, instead of MetaPost's version:
http://tug.org/texlive/acquire-tar.html

Thanks,
karl

Building standalone kpathsea

Norman Gray — 2013-04-14T11:25:50

Greetings.

Here (in case it's useful) are some instructions for building a standalone kpathsea library.  I don't think many people want to do this, but I do, and I might as well share my how-to (google: come ye and fetch...).

Building from Subversion:

You can check out the entire tree (svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source) but that takes a _long_ while.  Or you can check out just the required bits:

  % svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/m4
  % svn export svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/version.ac
  % svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/am texk/am
  % svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea texk/kpathsea
  % svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/tests/texmf texk/tests/texmf
  % cd texk/kpathsea

Then build:

  % autoreconf --install --symlink
  % ./configure
  % make
  % make check
  % make install

Alternatively, snarf a copy of the base tree from eg <http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/base.zip>, unpac

Apparent include loop in str-llist.h

Norman Gray — 2013-04-14T11:23:50

Greetings.

When trying to build a standalone version of the kpathsea library, I've come across what appears to be an include loop in the headers.

kpathsea/types.h includes kpathsea/str-llist.h, which includes kpathsea/types.h.  This leads at least one version of gcc into terminal confusion:

% gcc --version
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

% cat try.c                             
#include <kpathsea/pathsearch.h>
% gcc -I $T/kpathsea-6.1.1/include try.c
In file included from /Data/tools/kpathsea-6.1.1/include/kpathsea/str-llist.h:26,
                 from /Data/tools/kpathsea-6.1.1/include/kpathsea/pathsearch.h:23,
                 from try.c:1:
/Data/tools/kpathsea-6.1.1/include/kpathsea/types.h:88: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list

Re: dvips segfault

Norbert Preining — 2013-03-18T23:18:45

Hi Akira,

On Mo, 18 Mär 2013, Akira Kakuto wrote:

Thanks, will try asap.

Norbert

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Re: dvips segfault

Norbert Preining — 2013-03-18T23:14:08

;-)


Japanese influence ... I have to get a bit more serious ;-)))

Norbert

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Re: dvips segfault

Akira Kakuto — 2013-03-18T12:09:43

Hi Norbert,


Please test r29416.

Regards,
Akira

Re: dvips segfault

Robin Fairbairns — 2013-03-17T23:52:20


it's obviously a bug in the user, too: does he/she segfault, too?

(btw, what's become of your meaning of liff quotes ... some time since i
saw one...)

robin

dvips segfault

Norbert Preining — 2013-03-17T23:01:35

Hi everyone,

at Debian we got a bug report about segfaulting dvips when reading
and writing to itself .. (yes I know it is not very intelligent,
but still segfaulting is not optimal):

$ latex `kpsewhich sample2e.tex`
...
$ dvips -osample2e.dvi sample2e.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.992 Copyright 2012 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2013.03.18:0800' -> sample2e.dvi
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf/dvips/base/tex.pro>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf/dvips/base/texps.pro>. 
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr8.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr6.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmex10.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmsy7.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi7.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi10.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmti10.pfb>
</h