Re: Need help with building docs on openSUSE build service

[Dave Plater]

On 01/07/2010 12:06 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Op donderdag 07-01-2010 om 11:39 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Dave
> Plater:
>  
>   
>> This is where it starts to go wrong but there are many successful gs
>> commands and only the one that fails.
>>     
> That's what you call a bug, right?
>
>   
>> If you're interested in gs-1.70, I've installed the fc10 src rpm with
>> zypper
>>     
> Thanks, but no, not really.  It just needs to be updated in factory.
>
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>> What is the
>> exact meaning of "failed (11)"?
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> It means segmentation fault, a serious problem with ghostscript.  That's
> why I reported it.
>
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>> I'll check out your link but if the
>> above failed command succeeds when I compile with rpmbuild it's got to
>> be something that differs between the two builds.
>>     
> Yes -- it may be that the segfault is triggered by a missing file or
> a different environment setting.  That would make for an easy
> workaround.  Still, gs should print a warning and exit if that is so.
> And most likely, an update to 8.70 fixes it without even having to
> look into this.
>
> Greetings,
> Jan.
>
>
>   
It could also be some sort of corruption in the input layout file that
causes it but is handled gracefully by gs-8.70. I also have the other
error :-
programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name () error: invalid argument which
occurs quite frequently in the failed build but not at all in the
successful one.
Regards
Dave P