[tex-live] epstopdf does not propagate exit code

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 13 September 2009 T T wrote:

 > I've noticed that epstopdf utility does not propagate exit code from
 > ghostscript (WinXP), so I can't detect GS failure. Any chance to fix
 > that?

This is a known problem and I sent Gerben a patch already.  He said
that he was on leave and will reply later.  No other response so far.

Here is the patch I sent him:

--- epstopdf.pl	2009-07-20 02:59:05.000000000 +0200
+++ epstopdf.pl-new	2009-08-25 22:58:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -427,5 +427,6 @@
 close(IN);
 print OUT "\ngrestore\n" if $BBCorrected;
 close(OUT);
+exit ($?/256) if $?;
 warning "BoundingBox not found" unless $BBCorrected;
 debug "Ready.";


The Perl variable $? contains a 16 bit number, the most significant
byte contains the exit code.  Thus the division by 256.

Regards,
  Reinhard


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