[tex-live] dvipdfm(1) segfaults since latest update

[Jukka Salmi]

Hello,

since I upgraded my TL installation and rebuilt the binaries from svn
trunk some minutes ago, dvipdfm(1) (version 0.13.3TL) reproducibly dumps
core on my This is on NetBSD/i386 5.99.11 system:

$ dvipdfm test.dvi
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ gdb dvipdfm dvipdfm.core
GNU gdb 6.5
[...]
Core was generated by `dvipdfm'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0xbbb63ec0 in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
(gdb) bt
#0  0xbbb63ec0 in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#1  0x08075e20 in xstrdup (s=0x0) at ../../../texk/kpathsea/xstrdup.c:27
#2  0x08075331 in uppercasify (s=0x0) at ../../../texk/kpathsea/uppercasify.c:27
#3  0x0806e9a1 in kpathsea_init_format (kpse=0x8088740, format=kpse_program_text_format)
    at ../../../texk/kpathsea/tex-file.c:678
#4  0x0806f996 in kpathsea_find_file_generic (kpse=0x8088740, name=<value optimized out>, 
    format=kpse_program_text_format, must_exist=1, all=0)
    at ../../../texk/kpathsea/tex-file.c:929
#5  0x0806f9ee in kpathsea_find_file (kpse=0x8088740, name=0x807e438 "config", 
    format=kpse_program_text_format, must_exist=1) at ../../../texk/kpathsea/tex-file.c:889
#6  0x0806fb2d in kpse_find_file (name=0x807e438 "config", format=kpse_program_text_format, 
    must_exist=1) at ../../../texk/kpathsea/tex-file.c:900
#7  0x0804d807 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfbfe94c) at ../../../texk/dvipdfm/dvipdfm.c:517
(gdb) quit
$ 

Please tell if you need more information.


Regards, Jukka

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