Re: dvipng fails for me

David Kastrup <[email protected]> writes:

> After compiling a current dvipng, calling it (whether configured with
> or without --with-selfauto-set) results in
>
> Running `Preview-DviPNG' with ``dvipng -picky -noghostscript circ.dvi -o "circ.prv/tmp28928XzC/prev%03d.png" --bd 'rgb 0.705882 0.933333 0.705882' --bd Transparent --bd 3 -D144 ''
> This is dvipng 1.4 Copyright 2002-2004 Jan-Åke Larsson
> dvipng: variable.c:34: kpse_var_value: Assertion `kpse_program_name' failed.
>
> Preview-DviPNG aborted at Tue Jan 25 03:03:29
>
> It is my guess that this is a memory corruption problem.  Without the
> first two --bd options, it appears to work.

Uh, forget it.  I don't know what made me think --bd Transparent would
do something sensible.  But the error message is less than
enlightening...

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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