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From: Fred Gilham <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Problem with kpathsea and dvips



I've been trying to make the tex installation from ftp.shsu.edu.  I
thought I got the latest of everything.  But the documentation says
that the latest version of kpathsea is 2.1, while version.c in the
kpathsea directory says 2.0.  But the date of the ChangeLog file is
Sept. 12, so I think I've got the latest version, 2.1.

But anyway, I was trying to make dvips.  When I made it and ran it, it
gave an error about not being able to find `ader/type1 font'.  After a
while I tracked it down to something in kpathsea trashing the
`header_head' global variable in dvips, and changing the proper header
entry which had `texc.pro' in the name field to the garbage above.  It
seemed like `header_head' was getting trashed in kpse_init_format().
That function was writing to the variable `kpse_format_info' and that
was overwriting `header_head'.  In particular, the switch case
`kpse_dvips_header_format' seemed to be doing the damage.  What I did
was to change the enum called kpse_file_format_type in tex_file.h.  I
changed the line

kpse_last_format = kpse_dvips_header_format

to

kpse_last_format = kpse_dvips_header_format + 1

and after that everything worked.

I think this needs to be done, because otherwise you end up with the
kpse_format_info array being one element too small.

Fred Gilham   [e-mail]