Bug#275181: marked as forwarded (tetex-base: pdftex.map screwed up)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #275181,
regarding tetex-base: pdftex.map screwed up
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author(s) Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>.
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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= <frank@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:24:42 +0200
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Hi Thomas,
we have here a bug report about nonprintable characters in the map
files. updmap uses grep a lot, and if coloring options are set, they get
into grep's output:
Timo Hoenig <thoenig@nouse.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 12:31 +0200, Frank K=FCster wrote:
> [...]
>> I just installed zsh ( 4.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)), and could not
>> reproduce it. Can you tell us your exact settings in the shell startup
>> files?=20
>
> I got the point why 'updmap' fails.
>
> It does not have anything to do with the shell and/or shell colors. It
> is all about grep...
>
> When exporting
>
> GREP_OPTIONS=3D"--colour=3Dalways"
> GREP_COLOR=3D4
>
> updmap fails since it uses grep is adding the escape sequences for
> matched expressions.
I could not reproduce it directly, because here the escape sequences are
also in the input of LocateMap, which consequently fails:
Scanning for MixedMap entries:
updmap: map file `bsr-interpolated.map' not found.
updmap: map file `bsr.map' not found.
where the filenames are underlined on the terminal. And then it hangs
endlessly, it seems.=20
>
> Thanks for the hints. Patch attached.
I'd rather suggest
--- tetex-bin-2.96.7.20040721-CVS/texk/tetex/updmap.orig Mon Oct 18 =
14:23:43 2004
+++ tetex-bin-2.96.7.20040721-CVS/texk/tetex/updmap Mon Oct 18 14:23:50=
2004
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@
# hack around a bug in zsh:
test -n "${ZSH_VERSION+set}" && alias -g '${1+"$@"}'=3D'"$@"'
=20
+# unset grep options (problems if grep option '--colour=3D' is used).
+test -n "$GREP_OPTIONS" && unset GREP_OPTIONS
+
# the version string
version=3D1084485714 # seconds since `00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC'
# date '+%s' (with GNU date)
Regards, Frank
--=20
Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer
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