Hello all,
Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this question; in that case please
point me in the right direction.
System info:
$ uname -a
Linux (somehost.somewhere) 2.6.11-1.14_FC3smp #1 SMP Thu Apr 7 19:38:19 EDT 2005
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ rpm -q tetex
tetex-2.0.2-21.3
(Note that while my system has tetex 2.0, I've verified that this problem also
occurs with the epstopdf from the latest tetex-src-3.0.tar.gz).
While using doxygen (v1.4.3) to generate documentation (doxygen calls epstopdf
internally), I came across an apparent problem with epstopdf in which shell
metacharacters (specifically, parentheses) are passed unquoted to a shell pipe
in the following lines of epstopdf:
$ fgrep -1 sOutputFile ~/build/tetex-src-3.0/texk/tetex/epstopdf
my $pipe = "$GS -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite $GSOPTS " .
"-sOutputFile=$OutputFilename - -c quit";
debug "Ghostscript pipe:", $pipe;
open(OUT,"|$pipe") or error "Cannot open Ghostscript for piped input";
In my case (using an explicit call to mimic what doxygen is doing internally),
epstopdf is being called as follows:
epstopdf structfunc__traits_3_01R\(C_1_1_5\)\(\)_4.eps \
--outfile="structfunc__traits_3_01R(C_1_1_5)()_4.pdf"
and generates the following message:
sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
sh: -c: line 0: `gs -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-sOutputFile=structfunc__traits_3_01R(C_1_1_5)()_4.pdf - -c quit'
Is this the expected/desired behavior?
>From my admittedly superficial view of the situation, it seems like the
following change would fix the problem
- "-sOutputFile=$OutputFilename - -c quit";
+ "-sOutputFile='$OutputFilename' - -c quit";
If so, could someone point me to the proper forum for suggesting such a patch?
Or, is it expected that callers of epstopdf should wrap the argument to
--outfile in a second set of quotes, like this:
epstopdf structfunc__traits_3_01R\(C_1_1_5\)\(\)_4.eps \
--outfile="\"structfunc__traits_3_01R(C_1_1_5)()_4.pdf\""
That call works as-is with the current epstopdf, but it feels somewhat
awkward/counter-intuitive to have to wrap the argument in two sets of quotes.
Thanks,
Rob Peters
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