[tex-live] late fixes, I guess everyone will kill me ...

[Gerben Wierda]

On Jan 22, 2007, at 10:32 , Norbert Preining wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I found 2 patches in the debian dirs which might be of interest:
>
> The first one is for mktexmf from Werner Lemberg, I found it here  
> on the
> list I guess
>
> --- ./build/TeX/texk/kpathsea/mktexmf	2005-08-05 09:38:13.000000000  
> +0200
> +++ ./build/TeX/texk/kpathsea/mktexmf	2005-12-27 11:08:23.767340672  
> +0100
> @@ -36,17 +36,20 @@
>    rootfile=$sauterroot
>    rootname=b-$rootname
>  else
> -  case $rootname in
> +  case $name in
>      # csso12[0-5][0-9] from CJK package; unsupported by mktexmf
>      csso12[0-5][0-9])
> -       rootfile=;;
> -    cs*|lcsss*|icscsc*|icstt*|ilcsss*)
> -       rootfile=`kpsewhich cscode.mf`;;
> -    wn[bcdfirstuv]*|rx[bcdfiorstuvx][bcfhilmostx]|l[abcdhl] 
> [bcdfiorstuvx]*)
> -       lhprefix=`echo "$name" | sed 's/^\(..\).*/\1/'`
> -       rootfile=`kpsewhich ${lhprefix}codes.mf 2>/dev/null`;;
> +      rootfile=;;
>      *)
> -       rootfile=`kpsewhich $rootname.mf 2>/dev/null`;;
> +      case $rootname in
> +        cs*|lcsss*|icscsc*|icstt*|ilcsss*)
> +          rootfile=`kpsewhich cscode.mf`;;
> +        wn[bcdfirstuv]*|rx[bcdfiorstuvx][bcfhilmostx]|l[abcdhl] 
> [bcdfiorstuvx]*)
> +          lhprefix=`echo "$name" | sed 's/^\(..\).*/\1/'`
> +          rootfile=`kpsewhich ${lhprefix}codes.mf 2>/dev/null`;;
> +        *)
> +          rootfile=`kpsewhich $rootname.mf 2>/dev/null`;;
> +      esac;;
>    esac
>  fi
>  { test -z "$rootfile" || test ! -f "$rootfile"; } && exit 1
>
>
> The second one is a bit a bitter one: dvipdfm crashes in half-hour  
> time
> zones. The following patch was included upstream ...
> ## 61_dvipdfm_timezone.dpatch by "Mark A. Wicks"  
> <mwicks at kettering.edu>
> ## DP: fix crash of dvipdfm with 0.5 timezones
> --- ./build/TeX/texk/dvipdfm/pdfdoc.c.orig	2003-01-28  
> 00:18:05.000000000 +0100
> +++ ./build/TeX/texk/dvipdfm/pdfdoc.c	2007-01-04 00:43:19.000000000  
> +0100
> @@ -232,13 +232,7 @@
>
>  static char *asn_date (void)
>  {
> -#ifndef HAVE_TIMEZONE
> -  #ifdef TM_GM_TOFF
> -     #define timezone (bdtime->gm_toff)
> -  #else
> -     #define timezone 0l
> -#endif /* TM_GM_TOFF */
> -#endif /* HAVE_TIMEZONE */
> +  long tz_offset;
>    static char date_string[24];
>    time_t current_time;
>    struct tm *bd_time;
> @@ -247,10 +241,28 @@
>    }
>    time(&current_time);
>    bd_time = localtime(&current_time);
> -  sprintf (date_string, "D:%04d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d%+03ld'%02ld'",
> -	   bd_time -> tm_year+1900, bd_time -> tm_mon+1, bd_time -> tm_mday,
> -	   bd_time -> tm_hour, bd_time -> tm_min, bd_time -> tm_sec,
> -	   -timezone/3600, timezone%3600);
> +
> +#ifdef HAVE_TM_GMTOFF  /* Preferred way to get time zone offset */
> +  tz_offset = bd_time->tm_gmtoff;
> +#else
> +#ifdef HAVE_TIMEZONE   /* Plan B --- use external variable 'timezone'
> +                       /* (may not provide correct offset for  
> daylight savings time) */
> +  tz_offset = - timezone;
> +#else                  /* Last resort --- without more  
> information, set offset to zero */
> +  tz_offset = 0l;
> +#endif /* HAVE_TIMEZONE */
> +#endif /* HAVE_TM_GMTOFF */
> +
> +  if (tz_offset == 0l) {
> +    sprintf (date_string, "D:%04d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02dZ00'00'",
> +	     bd_time -> tm_year+1900, bd_time -> tm_mon+1, bd_time ->  
> tm_mday,
> +	     bd_time -> tm_hour, bd_time -> tm_min, bd_time -> tm_sec);
> +  } else {
> +    sprintf (date_string, "D:%04d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d%c%02ld'%02ld'",
> +             bd_time -> tm_year+1900, bd_time -> tm_mon+1, bd_time  
> -> tm_mday,
> +             bd_time -> tm_hour, bd_time -> tm_min, bd_time ->  
> tm_sec,
> +	     (tz_offset>0)? '+':'-', abs(tz_offset)/3600, (abs(tz_offset)/ 
> 60)%60);
> +  }
>    return date_string;
>  }
>
>
> I checked, both of them do still apply to the svn repository.
>
> But I guess at least the second has to wait for next year.

While building new binaries should not happen, I agree, there is no  
reason not to check it in as soon as it is available (which is now)  
as some people do not install the ISO, but compile from source (and  
thus would/could get the benefit.

G