Re: ghostscript issues

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 6/2/2020 2:14 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 6/2/2020 8:12 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 6/2/2020 7:58 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:43:44 -0400
>>> From: Ken Brown via Cygwin
>>>
>>>> On 6/1/2020 11:26 AM, Thomas Bodine via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>> My favorite use of ghost script is to combine PDF's. I upgraded Cygwin this 
>>>>> weekend, and ghost script fails to perform this task
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running this:
>>>>> Cygwin Setup version 2.904 (64 bit)
>>>>> base-cygwin 3.8-1
>>>>> ghostscript 9.52-1
>>>>> ghostscript-fonts-other 6.0-1
>>>>> Windows 10 Pro version 1909 build 18363.836
>>>>>
>>>>> When I run the script:
>>>>>    $ gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite  -sOutputFile=combine.pdf 
>>>>> able.pdf baker.pdf charly.pdf
>>>>>>
>>>>> GPL Ghostscript 9.52 (2020-03-19)
>>>>> Copyright (C) 2020 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>>>>> This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO WARRANTY:
>>>>> see the file COPYING for details.
>>>>> Processing pages 1 through 1.
>>>>> Page 1
>>>>> Error: /rangecheck in --restore--
>>>>> Operand stack:
>>>>>      --dict:8/16(L)--   --dict:38/38(ro)(L)--
>>>>> Execution stack:
>>>>>      %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   restore   
>>>>> --nostringval--   2
>>>>> %stopped_push   --nostringval--   restore   restore   false   1   
>>>>> %stopped_push
>>>>>     1990   1   3   %oparray_pop   1989   1   3   %oparray_pop   1977   1 
>>>>> 3   %op
>>>>> array_pop   1978   1   3   %oparray_pop   restore   restore   2   1   1 restor
>>>>> e   %for_pos_int_continue   1981   1   7   %oparray_pop   restore restore   18
>>>>> 94   2   9   %oparray_pop
>>>>> Dictionary stack:
>>>>>      --dict:737/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:1/20(G)--   --dict:80/200(L)-- 
>>>>> --dict:80/
>>>>> 200(L)--   --dict:135/256(ro)(G)--   --dict:318/325(ro)(G)-- --dict:33/64(L)--
>>>>>      --dict:6/9(L)--   --dict:6/20(L)--
>>>>> Current allocation mode is local
>>>>> GPL Ghostscript 9.52: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>>>>
>>>> I can confirm this.  As a workaround, downgrade ghostscript and libgs9 to 
>>>> the previous version, 9.50-1, while I investigate.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the report.
>>>>
>>>> Ken
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> The first bad commit causing the issue seems to be 327dc89:
>>>
>>> http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=327dc8943c0aac1c7be7a1fb6e93346b61cd0900 
>>>
>>
>> Thanks!  I think the problem is here:
>>
>> @@ -234,18 +242,14 @@ CONTRIBINCLUDE="include $srcdir/contrib/contrib.mak"
>>   INSTALL_CONTRIB="install-contrib-extras"
>>
>>   if test x"$enable_contrib" = x; then
>> -  if test x"$cross_compiling" = x"yes"; then
>> -    enable_contrib=
>> -  else
>> -    case `uname` in
>> -      MINGW*|MSYS*)
>> +    case $host in
>> +      *-mingw*|*-msys*|*-cygwin*)
>>           AC_MSG_WARN([disabling contrib devices])
>>           enable_contrib=no
>>         ;;
>>         *)
>>         ;;
>>       esac
>> -  fi
>>   fi
>>
>>   if test x"$enable_contrib" != x"no"; then
>>
>> Do you want to send the obvious fix upstream or should I do it?
> 
> Let's hold off on this.  Just making this one change doesn't solve the problem. 
> I've found several other commits that have mistakenly lumped cygwin with mingw 
> and msys.  I'm still working on it.

It turned out that fixing that one commit was all that was required, but the 
hunk I quoted above wasn't the culprit.

I've just uploaded ghostscript 9.52-2, which should fix the problem

Ken