Re: Ghostscript/GhostPDL 9.27 Release Candidate 1

On 28/03/2019 11:53, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Chris Liddell (2019-03-28 10:51:32)
>> On 28/03/2019 01:15, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> Quoting Chris Liddell (2019-03-27 13:41:34)
>>>> I have created archives (and Ghostscript Windows installers) for 
>>>> the first public release candidates for Ghostscript and GhostPDL 
>>>> 9.27, and they are available here:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/9.27rc1
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> Unfortunately Debian builds of the new prerelease segfaults when 
>>> simply executing "gs --version".
> 
> [...]
> 
>> It's a change in the front end API, and we missed it for some of the 
>> callers of that API:
>>
>> https://tinyurl.com/y4uwbowc
>>
>> is a commit that fixes the specific problem, and removes the reliance on
>> the compiler initialising globals in other places (just makes it clearer
>> what's required).
> 
> Thanks for the quick bugfix.  With that patch applied the prerelease 
> succesfully builds in Debian.

Great, thanks for checking it.

Chris