[tex-live] TeX Live 2008: nasty pdf(la)tex bug on Solaris SPARC with ZFS

Thanh Han The hanthethanh at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 17:35:53 CEST 2008


done. many thanks to Vladimir.

Thanh

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 07:03:11PM +0400, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> i've debugged it. it appears to be caused by a misfeature (or bug) of
> the C pre-processor:
>
> [...]
>
> i'd like to ask pdftex maintainers to apply this patch to their master
> sources and to texlive tree:
>
> --- texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writet1.c
> +++ texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writet1.c
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
>  static const char _svn_version[] =
>      "$Id$ $URL: http://scm.foundry.supelec.fr/svn/pdftex/branches/stable/source/src/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writet1.c $";
>
> -#define t1_log(s)        tex_printf("%s",s)
> +#define t1_log(str)      tex_printf("%s",str)
>  #define get_length1()    t1_length1 = t1_offset() - t1_save_offset
>  #define get_length2()    t1_length2 = t1_offset() - t1_save_offset
>  #define get_length3()    t1_length3 = fixedcontent? t1_offset() - t1_save_offset : 0
>
> i've commited a fixed aix binary which now correctly shows the fonts.
>
> Best,
> v.


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