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[Martin Costabel <address@hidden>]

Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Kostas Oikonomou did some experimentation concerning the bug
> with ghostscript 8.00, but he seems to be on hollidays now :^)
> So if you have a problem with ghostscript 8.00 and know how
> to compile TeXmacs, then maybe you can follow the suggestions
> below and let me know if the problem disappears.

No such luck here (texmacs-1.0.1.11 on MacOSX, gs-8.00).

I tried all possible combinations with -dNOPROMPT, but the behavior 
rests the same. Only Ctrl-C from the command line finishes the gs 
process and lets texmacs proceed.

> > > I forgot to mention that a small test program works fine with gs 8.00:

All the "small test programs" I tried worked fine, even with TeXmacs' 
original gs command line. This system call from inside a texmacs menu 
item seems to have a different environment that lets gs hang in a 
select() call right at the end before it finishes.

> > > #include <iostream>
> > > #include <string>
> > >
> > > using namespace std;
> > >
> > > int main()
> > > {
> > >  string temp_name, command;
> > >  temp_name = "/home/ko/exper/tm_gnu1.ps";
> > >  command = "gs -q -sDEVICE=x11 -dNOPROMPT -dBATCH -dSAFER " + temp_name;
> > >  cout << command << "\n";
> > >  system (command.c_str());
> > >  cout << "Done calling gs...\n";
> > >  //  system ("rm -f " * temp_name);
> > > }
> >
> > Thank you for this very useful feedback.
> > Can you please try to modify the lines
> >
> >    system ("gs -q -sDEVICE=x11 -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER " *
> >             temp_name * " -c quit");
> >
> > into
> >
> >    system ("gs -q -sDEVICE=x11 -dNOPROMPT -dBATCH -dSAFER " *
> >             temp_name * " -c quit");
> >
> > or
> >
> >    system ("gs -q -sDEVICE=x11 -dNOPROMPT -dBATCH -dSAFER " *
> >             temp_name);
> >
> > in src/Windows/X/x_drawable.cc and test TeXmacs
> > after recompilation?