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

[Kornel Benko]

Am Sat, 22 May 2021 21:43:18 -0400
schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org>:

> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 05:26:10PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote:
> > Am Sat, 22 May 2021 16:51:43 +0200
> > schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller <spitz at lyx.org>:
> >   
> > > 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).  
> > 
> > Thanks.
> >   
> > > 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
> > >   
> > 
> > That means that we could use this setting for our tests.  
> 
> Thanks for following up on this, Kornel. I think I stopped looking into
> this issue because I thought it was due to a known bug with a fix in
> progress.
> 
> Scott

Committed change to prefTest.pm to add "-i dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg" as
parameter for dvipdfmx in our test environment.

To use:
	$ cd <build_dir>
	$ ./prefTest.pl test


	Kornel

	Kornel
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