Anyone on TeX Live 2021 pretest ? (to confirm a regression for ja LilyPond)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Samstag, dem 22.05.2021 um 16:33 +0200 schrieb Kornel Benko:
> Fine. But how to explain that running with 2020-dvipdfmx compiles on
> TL20, but the same dvipdfmx (copied from TL20) fails if using TL20 env.

Stricter security measures have been introduced with TL 21 [1].

The produced DVI is fine, but dvipdfmx does not produce a PDF due to
access restrictions (when attempting to access fonts).

When processing the DVI with

dvipdfmx -i dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg

it works, i.e., after changing the converter DVI > PDF (dvipdfm) to
dvipdfmx -i dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg -o $$o $$i

dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg makes dvipdfmx call gs (rungs) with -dNOSAFER
rather than with -DSAFER (as in the default dvipdfmx.cfg of TL21).

However, this change should definitely only be applied to trustworthy
files, so changing the converter generally is certainly not such a good
idea.

Jürgen

[1] The explicit call of -DSAFER has been introduced for TL 21:
https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live-commits/2021-March/017216.html

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