[tlbuild] dvi test?

[Paul Vojta]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 03:16:04AM -0500, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Paul Vojta <vojta at math.berkeley.edu> wrote on Mon, 24 Jan 2022
> at 03:08:13 EST in <Ye5ebcrYBRHwXhGH at math.berkeley.edu>:
> 
> > How about the output of ldd /some/path/to/xdvi-xaw
> 
> Somewhere along the way somebody decided MacOS had to be different, but here are the 3 equivalents (that I am aware of) for its dynamic loader; for whatever reason only the magic environment variable prints the hidden libraries, maybe because they are recursive dependencies of libSystem or something:
> 
> jhawk at loud-room xdvik % otool -L xdvi-bin 
> xdvi-bin:
> 	/opt/X11/lib/libXaw.7.dylib (compatibility version 8.0.0, current version 8.0.0)
> 	/opt/X11/lib/libXmu.6.dylib (compatibility version 9.0.0, current version 9.0.0)
> 	/opt/X11/lib/libXt.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
> 	/opt/X11/lib/libSM.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.1.0)
> 	/opt/X11/lib/libICE.6.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.0.0)
> 	/opt/X11/lib/libXext.6.dylib (compatibility version 11.0.0, current version 11.0.0)
> 	/opt/X11/lib/libXpm.4.dylib (compatibility version 16.0.0, current version 16.0.0)

[snip]

> jhawk at loud-room xdvik % 
> 
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> jhawk at alum.mit.edu
> John Hawkinson

Hm.  I don't see anything there.

I notice that the dvi file has some PostScript specials in it.
Does the problem occur when the PS specials are removed?

If you wait for the ghostscript process to fully start up before pressing 'R'
(with the original dvi file), does the problem still occur?

Paul