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Subject: Initialisation (texc.pro) file reading bug in dvips(k) version 5.58a

There appears to be a bug in version 5.58a of dvipsk,

The program refuses to find texc.pro even though the file exists
in /usr/local/public/lib/texmf. I have tried running dvips(k) on
the dvips.dvi in dvipsk-5.58a/dvipsk of the src tree and it works and I assume
that it works because in that case texc.pro is in ./

When I try the same thing in dvipsk-5.58a/kpathea on kpathsea.dvi
the program fails to find texc.pro. Looking at the
output from debug (dvips -d-1) it appears either that
dvips(k) looks in ./, doesn't find texc.pro and stops, or,
(if the paths are really searched in reverse order as implied
by the source code) it completely ignores the texc.pro to be found
in /usr/local/public/lib/texmf/dvips before failing to find it in ./

To build this I disabled all TEX* environment variables, ran
configure --prefix=/usr/local/public then did a make; make install
from the top level directory. I left texmf.cnf.in unchanged.

It seems I can temporarily
work around this by having a copy of texc.pro in my ./
whenever I run dvips.

---------------debug output----
public@cstriton [153] -> dvips -d-1 kpathsea -o
Alloc 25000
kdebug:Search path for .cnf files (from compile-time paths.h)
kdebug:  = .:/usr/local/public/lib/texmf
kdebug:  before expansion = .:/usr/local/public/lib/texmf
kdebug:  font override var applies = 0
kdebug:  application config file path = (none)
kdebug:  texmf.cnf path = (none)
kdebug:  compile-time path = .:/usr/local/public/lib/texmf
kdebug:  suffix = .cnf
kdebug:  search only with suffix = 0
kdebug:  runtime generation program = texmf.cnf
kdebug:  extra program args = (none)
kdebug:search(file=texmf.cnf, must_exist=1, find_all=1, path=.:/usr/local/public/lib/texmf).
kdebug:path element . => ./
kdebug:path element /usr/local/public/lib/texmf => /usr/local/public/lib/texmf/
kdebug:search(texmf.cnf) =>kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMFLOG) => (null)
 ./texmf.cnf /usr/local/public/lib/texmf/texmf.cnf
kdebug:fopen(./texmf.cnf, r) => 0x51234
kdebug:fclose(0x51234) => 0
kdebug:fopen(/usr/local/public/lib/texmf/texmf.cnf, r) => 0x51234
kdebug:fclose(0x51234) => 0
kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMF) => /usr/local/public/lib/texmf /usr/local/public/lib/texmf
kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXCONFIG) => .:~:$TEXMF/dvips .:~:$TEXMF/dvips
kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMF) => /usr/local/public/lib/texmf /usr/local/public/lib/texmf
kdebug:Search path for dvips config files (from texmf.cnf)
kdebug:  = .:/usr/local/public:/usr/local/public/lib/texmf/dvips
kdebug:  before expansion = .:~:$TEXMF/dvips
kdebug:  font override var applies = 0
kdebug:  application config file path = (none)
kdebug:  texmf.cnf path = .:~:$TEXMF/dvips
kdebug:  compile-time path = .:~:/usr/local/public/lib/texmf/dvips
kdebug:  suffix = (none)
kdebug:  search only with suffix = 0
kdebug:  runtime generation program = (none)
kdebug:  extra program args = (none)
kdebug:search(file=config.ps, must_exist=1, find_all=0, path=.:/usr/local/public:/usr/local/public/lib/texmf/dvips).
kdebug:path element /usr/local/public => /usr/local/public/
kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMF) => /usr/local/public/lib/texmf /usr/local/public/lib/texmf
kdebug:fopen(/usr/local/public/lib/texmf/ls-R, r) => 0x51234
kdebug:fclose(0x51234) => 0
kdebug:hash_lookup(config.ps) => (null)
kdebug:path element /usr/local/public/lib/texmf/dvips => /usr/local/public/lib/texmf/dvips/
kdebug:search(config.ps) => /usr/local/public/lib/texmf/dvips/config.ps
kdebug:fopen(/usr/local/public/lib/texmf/dvips/config.ps, r) => 0x51234
Alloc 20
:
Alloc 20
kdebug:fclose(0x51234) => 0
kdebug:search(file=.dvipsrc, must_exist=1, find_all=0, path=.:/usr/local/public:/usr/local/public/lib/texmf/dvips).
kdebug:hash_lookup(.dvipsrc) => (null)
kdebug:search(.dvipsrc) =>
kdebug:search(file=psfonts.map, must_exist=1, find_all=0, path=.:/usr/local/public:/usr/local/public/lib/texmf/dvips).
kdebug:hash_lookup(psfonts.map) => (null)
kdebug:search(psfonts.map) => /usr/local/public/lib/texmf/dvips/psfonts.map
kdebug:fopen(/usr/local/public/lib/texmf/dvips/psfonts.map, r) => 0x51234
Alloc 28
: (lots of these)
Alloc 28
kdebug:fclose(0x51234) => 0
Alloc 25000
This is dvipsk 5.58a Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software
kdebug:fopen(kpathsea.dvi, r) => 0x0
kdebug:fopen(kpathsea, r) => 0x0
input file kpathsea output file kpathsea.ps swmem 3500000
Alloc 20
kdebug:Search path for dvips header/type1 font files (from texmf.cnf)
kdebug:  =
kdebug:  before expansion =
kdebug:  font override var applies = 0
kdebug:  application config file path = (none)
kdebug:  texmf.cnf path =
kdebug:  compile-time path = .:/usr/local/public/lib/texmf/dvips:/usr/local/public/lib/texmf/fonts//type1
kdebug:  suffix = (none)
kdebug:  search only with suffix = 0
kdebug:  runtime generation program = (none)
kdebug:  extra program args = (none)
kdebug:search(file=texc.pro, must_exist=1, find_all=0, path=).
kdebug:path element  => ./
kdebug:search(texc.pro) =>
dvips: ! Couldn't find header file texc.pro
Segmentation fault
public@cstriton [154] ->
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The empty path in the search(file=texc.pro, ... call looks suspicious!

Chris
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