<div dir="ltr">Hi Nelson,<div>I don't think Asymptote needs dvipdf (it calls ghostscript directly, which is all that</div><div>the wrapper dvipdf does anyway). In any case, I don't see any reason to remove</div><div>the version of dvipdf in the Asymptote patches directory, which is patched to</div><div>accept common dvips options. We distribute it just for convenience for those</div><div>users who still like to use dvips.</div><div><br></div><div>-- John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:35 AM Nelson H. F. Beebe <<a href="mailto:beebe@math.utah.edu">beebe@math.utah.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">CentOS 8 was finally released yesterday, 24 September 2019, and I created<br>
a new VM for it that day, and today, completed sufficient binary and source<br>
code package installations that I could attempt a TeX Live 2019 build.<br>
I succeeded, with some nuisances; the story is at<br>
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<a href="http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/README.html#centos-8" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/README.html#centos-8</a><br>
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It is fairly clear now that use of dvipdf must be excised from Asymptote.<br>
[My build today on CentOS 8 was with the texlive-20190919 snapshot.]<br>
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