error when running \psbarcode

resubmit problem

a question about tlmgr on Windows

Karl and friends, 

I have a question and a problem relating to tlmgr. 

As a long time user of TeX and friends I installed Texlive 2009 in 2010 on my 
then new Win XP laptop.  More recently I realized that tlmgr has ceased to 
function.  Quite simply, whenever I try to invoke it, Windows responds with 
the message:  
          perl.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. 
          We are sorry for the inconvenience.

The current tug.org/texlive/tlmgr pages indicate that there is a fix for 
disaster recovery.  Specifically it suggests to download update-tlmgr-latest.exe 

I have done that.  running that executable produces that same message, that 
perl.exe has encountered a problem...........  

is there a simpler fix, save for a clean install of TeXlive (??)   
I really like my present installation, and have been very productive with this. 
any suggestions are very much appreciated.  

regards,
andrew 

About Kpathsea

Dear Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and Taco Hoekwater,

I am an user of LaTeX in China. I hava a question that may sounds silly: 
why Kpathsea is called Kpathsea?, is it a word in Dutch, German, or not 
a word at all?

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  Zhimeng Fan

Student(Bachelor Candidate)

Tongji University

School of Electronics and Information Engineering

ShangHai,P.R.China

Building standalone kpathsea

Greetings.

Here (in case it's useful) are some instructions for building a standalone kpathsea library.  I don't think
many people want to do this, but I do, and I might as well share my how-to (google: come ye and fetch...).

Building from Subversion:

You can check out the entire tree (svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source) but that takes a
_long_ while.  Or you can check out just the required bits:

  % svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/m4
  % svn export svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/version.ac
  % svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/am texk/am
  % svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea texk/kpathsea
  % svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/tests/texmf texk/tests/texmf
  % cd texk/kpathsea

Then build:

  % autoreconf --install --symlink
  % ./configure
  % make
  % make check
  % make install

Alternatively, snarf a copy of the base tree from eg
<http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/base.zip>, unpack it, cd to
base/source/texk/kpathsea, and build as above.

All the best,

Norman

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Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Apparent include loop in str-llist.h

Greetings.

When trying to build a standalone version of the kpathsea library, I've come across what appears to be an
include loop in the headers.

kpathsea/types.h includes kpathsea/str-llist.h, which includes kpathsea/types.h.  This leads at
least one version of gcc into terminal confusion:

% gcc --version
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

% cat try.c                             
#include <kpathsea/pathsearch.h>
% gcc -I $T/kpathsea-6.1.1/include try.c
In file included from /Data/tools/kpathsea-6.1.1/include/kpathsea/str-llist.h:26,
                 from /Data/tools/kpathsea-6.1.1/include/kpathsea/pathsearch.h:23,
                 from try.c:1:
/Data/tools/kpathsea-6.1.1/include/kpathsea/types.h:88: error: expected
specifier-qualifier-list before ‘str_llist_type’
% 

(Here, .../kpathsea-6.1.1 contains an install of the current SVN HEAD).

Note: i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 is the default compiler on OS X 10.8.

This is fixed (not necessarily ideally) by:

% svn diff str-llist.h
Index: str-llist.h
===================================================================
--- str-llist.h	(revision 29913)
+++ str-llist.h	(working copy)
 <at>  <at>  -23,7 +23,9  <at>  <at> 
 #define STR_LLIST_H

 #include <kpathsea/c-proto.h>
-#include <kpathsea/types.h>
+/* Do not include types.h, because that wants to include this file */
+/* types.h defines string to be char* and boolean to be int */
+/* #include <kpathsea/types.h> */

 
 /* It's a little bizarre to be using the same type for the list and the
 <at>  <at>  -33,8 +35,10  <at>  <at> 

 struct str_llist_elt
 {
-  string str;
-  boolean moved;
+  char * str;
+  int moved;
+  /* string str; */ /* ...with types.h */
+  /* boolean moved; */
   struct str_llist_elt *next;
 };
 typedef struct str_llist_elt str_llist_elt_type;
%

Best wishes,

Norman

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Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

dvips segfault

Hi everyone,

at Debian we got a bug report about segfaulting dvips when reading
and writing to itself .. (yes I know it is not very intelligent,
but still segfaulting is not optimal):

$ latex `kpsewhich sample2e.tex`
...
$ dvips -osample2e.dvi sample2e.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.992 Copyright 2012 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2013.03.18:0800' -> sample2e.dvi
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf/dvips/base/tex.pro>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf/dvips/base/texps.pro>. 
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr8.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr6.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmex10.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmsy7.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi7.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi10.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmti10.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmsy10.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr7.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx12.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr12.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr17.pfb>
[1887007337Segmentation fault

This is with current TeX Live 2012 (but the same in old versions and
Debian versions).

Maybe that can be handled sooner or later, but no hurry I guess.

Thanks

Norbert

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MULTIPLE FILES

Got a problem with epstopdf...
It only works with a single file, but if I'd have ie 4 or 5 eps files in 
a folder, what can I do to process'em at once?
The sintax epstopdf ./*.eps doesn't work.
Greets from Italy
Henry

Report a WARNING

Dear TeX-Developer,

running xelatex on my LaTeX-document brings the message:

** WARNING ** 4 memory objects still allocated
You may want to report this to tex-k@...

So I report this to You. Which more information do You need to make that 
helpful?

The resulting PDF doesn't show any error, so I don't really worry about 
this warning. But if it make sense, I like to help do avoid it.

Ulrich

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Ulrich Goebel
Sonnenrain 29, 53757 Sankt Augustin
Tel.: 02241-8799288

** WARNING ** 9 memory objects still allocated

First message: Xelatex, pstricks and Mountain Lion

Hi,

I am on Macbook pro, 2012, with Mountain Lion, 10.8.2.
My texlive 2012 is up to date : i update it with Tex Live Utility.

I have a problem:
This is my document:

\listfiles
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}(0,0)(10cm,2cm)
\psline[linewidth=2pt,linecolor=red](0,0)(10,2)
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}

When I xelatex this simple example, I obtain a one blank page pdf file.

In console, I have this message:
(./ecm.aux) [1] (./ecm.aux)gs requires X11.  Please visit http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5293 for
more information.

** WARNING ** Filtering file via command -->rungs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNOSAFER -sPAPERSIZE=a0
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 -dAutoFilterGrayImages=false
-dGrayImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dAutoFilterColorImages=false
-dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode
-sOutputFile='/var/folders/tx/jz3ygk150jldyb_xjg26tbr40000gn/T//dvipdfmx.yQDiuc2o'
'/var/folders/tx/jz3ygk150jldyb_xjg26tbr40000gn/T//dvipdfmx.Y8pRsQwx' -c quit<-- failed.
** WARNING ** Image format conversion for PSTricks failed.
** WARNING ** Interpreting special command pst: (ps:) failed.
** WARNING ** >> at page="1" position="(91.9253, 663.307)" (in PDF)
** WARNING ** >> xxx "pst:  tx <at> Dict begin STP newpath /ArrowA { moveto } def /ArrowB "
** WARNING ** 5 memory objects still allocated
You may want to report this to tex-k@...

I had a long talk with Herbert Voss this last WE and we don't find a solution. Herbert works on PC, so it is
difficult to find the problem on Mac.
I someone can help me...

Thank-you
François