dvisvgm needs rebuild to support ghostscript 10
Martin Gieseking
martin.gieseking at uos.de
Wed Nov 23 15:07:56 CET 2022
Am 23.11.2022 um 10:33 schrieb Sergio Callegari:
> It looks like the dvisvgm binary distributed with texlive can only deal
> with ghostscript versions up to 9. Because some linux distros have
> already moved to ghostscript 10, the dvisvgm binary in texlive has
> reduced functionality there.
Hi,
unfortunately, a plain rebuild is not sufficient to solve the issue
because GS 10 introduced changes regarding the visibility of some
symbols provided by the library. Also, the dvisvgm code must be updated
to look for the new GS library.
Here are the two patches that are required to fix this:
https://github.com/mgieseki/dvisvgm/commit/9bf81fd0b6e7876e5079e917ed7e12163b9e7f7f
https://github.com/mgieseki/dvisvgm/commit/46b11c02a46883309a824e3fc798f8093041daec
Regards,
Martin
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