[tex-live] bug report: dvisvgm cannot use TL

[George N. White III]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Axel Strübing <axel.struebing at freenet.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried dvisvgm on two linux distributions, OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64, debian etch
> i386.
> This program has to be compiled against libkpathsea, which TL does not provide
> and therefore had been installed from the distribution(s).
>
> Using an adopted texmf.cnf to search in the TL-tree, dvisvgm is not able to
> complete and crashes after opening texfonts.map
>
> The problem was having a 0x20 0x0A last line in texfonts.map leading to double
> free's later on.
>
> I am not sure if this is a kpathsea bug in the distributors packages of
> libkpathsea or if the format of the fontmap file forbids the aforementioned
> last line. The kpathsea documentation just explicitely mentions 'blank
> lines'.

Several years ago this problem cropped up for pdftex-1.40 and changes
were made to libkpathsea.

> Having only line breaks (0x0A) at the end of texfonts.map is fine for me.
>
> So I want to suggest to correct texfonts.map anyway. It would play nice - even
> if some external libkpathsea package should be slightly broken.

I agree, but what you are doing is fragile and the result may only be
useful to you.

As  Victor Ivrii notes, it should be enough to get the kpathsea
sources, but in any case

ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/texlive/Source/texlive-20091011-source.tar.xz (28M)

should allow you to build a working libkpathsea.a and will also have
the necessary
header files.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia