Package: ghostscript
Version: 8.71~dfsg-2
Severity: normal
When building freefem++ I encoutered the following problem
epstopdf figures/mesh_sample.eps --outfile=cpfigs/mesh_sample.pdf
GPL Ghostscript 8.71: ./psi/iscan.c(333): Can't refill scanner input buffer!GPL
Ghostscript 8.71: Unrecoverable error, exit code 255
After some googling I found that this problem has been reported in Ubuntu
with a patch by Till Kamppeter. See
http://www.mail-archive.com/lucid-chan...@lists.ubuntu.com/msg06544.html
I had to slightly modify the patch to solve the problem.
Proposed patch is attached
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ghostscript depends on:
ii debconf [debc 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 3.2.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii defoma 0.11.10-4 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii ghostscript [ 8.71~dfsg-2 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii gs-common 8.71~dfsg-2 Dummy package depending on ghostsc
ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgs8 8.71~dfsg-2 The Ghostscript PostScript/PDF int
Versions of packages ghostscript recommends:
ii psfontmgr 0.11.10-4 PostScript font manager -- part of
ghostscript suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
Index: ghostscript-8.71~dfsg/base/seexec.c
===================================================================
--- ghostscript-8.71~dfsg.orig/base/seexec.c 2010-03-04 10:51:10.000000000 +0100
+++ ghostscript-8.71~dfsg/base/seexec.c 2010-03-04 10:53:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -165,7 +165,11 @@
r.limit = r.ptr + ss->hex_left;
status = s_hex_process(&r, pw, &ss->odd,
(ss->is_leading_space ? hex_ignore_leading_whitespace : hex_break_on_whitespace));
- ss->is_leading_space = (status == 2);
+ if (status == 2) {
+ ss->is_leading_space = true;
+ status = 1;
+ } else
+ ss->is_leading_space = false;
pr->ptr = r.ptr;
ss->hex_left -= r.ptr - start;
/*
Index: ghostscript-8.71~dfsg/base/sstring.c
===================================================================
--- ghostscript-8.71~dfsg.orig/base/sstring.c 2010-03-04 10:51:19.000000000 +0100
+++ ghostscript-8.71~dfsg/base/sstring.c 2010-03-04 10:52:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -355,8 +355,12 @@
/* ------ Utilities ------ */
/*
- * Convert hex data to binary. Return 1 if we filled the string, 0 if
- * we ran out of input data before filling the string, or ERRC on error.
+ * Convert hex data to binary.
+ * Return 1 if we filled the string,
+ * 0 if we ran out of input data before filling the string,
+ * 2 if hex_break_on_whitespace is on and we encounrered
+ * a white space.
+ * ERRC on error.
* The caller must set *odd_digit to -1 before the first call;
* after each call, if an odd number of hex digits has been read (total),
* *odd_digit is the odd digit value, otherwise *odd_digit = -1.
Index: ghostscript-8.71~dfsg/psi/iscan.c
===================================================================
--- ghostscript-8.71~dfsg.orig/psi/iscan.c 2010-03-04 10:51:59.000000000 +0100
+++ ghostscript-8.71~dfsg/psi/iscan.c 2010-03-04 10:52:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -329,9 +329,9 @@
rstate, 1, cont);
}
}
- /* No more data available, but no exception. How can this be? */
- lprintf("Can't refill scanner input buffer!");
- return_error(e_Fatal);
+ /* No more data available, but no exception. */
+ /* A filter is consuming headers but returns nothing. */
+ return 0;
}
/*
