On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 11:33:18PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> I expected the crashing bug in Fedora's distro Inkscape would be
> resolved by the time of Fedora 39 release.
> I tested Fedora 39 beta and was disappointed to see more or less the
> same crashes of command-line runs of Inkscape as those under Fedora 38.
>
> As a matter of fact, even when Inkscape crashes, the export of PDF
> is complete most of the time. So the crashing bug can be worked
> around by ignoring the error code from Inkscape and continue building.
>
> This patch set implements the ad-hoc workaround in build scripts.
>
> As you can see in Patch 1/3, the workaround is enabled by default.
> This is because enabling it won't do any harm on systems with
> stable Inkscape.
>
> I might be able to add some heuristics not to enable the workaround
> for stable Inkscape installs, but that can wait.
>
> Ubuntu releases 22.04LTS, 23.04, and 23.10 are free of this issue.
Ouch!
But look like a good approach. Queued and pushed, thank you!
Thanx, Paul
> Thanks, Akira
> --
> Akira Yokosawa (3):
> Ignore error of unstable Inkscape
> Ignore emergency-save SVG files from Inkscape
> Make sure all PDF conversions are complete
>
> .gitignore | 1 +
> Makefile | 17 ++++++++++++++---
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 84759ebac65a03aa28c5b02007e6c472b3416d3d
> --
> 2.25.1
>
