dvips no longer works

dvips no longer works

Post by Clinton W Schneid » Fri, 28 Feb 1997 04:00:00



I upgraded to 2.0.27 with a bunch of new libraries, etc, including
libc.so.5.4.17 and now my dvips ver 5.58a no longer works, instead
returning a segmentation fault.

I have found dejanews references to the problem, but no real answers.
If a new version exists I have not yet found it. Reference anyone?

TIA
clint

--
Clint Schneider
Dept. of Physics
Clemson University

 
 
 

dvips no longer works

Post by Rafael Amer Ramo » Sat, 01 Mar 1997 04:00:00



> I upgraded to 2.0.27 with a bunch of new libraries, etc, including
> libc.so.5.4.17 and now my dvips ver 5.58a no longer works, instead
> returning a segmentation fault.

> I have found dejanews references to the problem, but no real answers.
> If a new version exists I have not yet found it. Reference anyone?

> TIA
> clint

> --
> Clint Schneider
> Dept. of Physics
> Clemson University

I solved the same problem getting the latest version of dvips,
dvipsk-5.66a.tar.gz, from the CTAN archives and recompiled it.

~/dvipsk-5.66a$ ./configure

My TeX files are in the directory /usr/lib/texmf, then I only needed
one change in the Makefile:
   # Architecture-independent files.
   datadir = ${prefix}/lib

~/dvipsk-5.66a$ make

~/dvipsk-5.66a$ su

~/dvipsk-5.66a$ cp dvipsk/dvips /usr/bin

Now, dvips works correctly.

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