Re: [PATCH -perfbook 0/3] Work around errors of unstable Inkscape

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 11:33:18PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I expected the crashing bug in Fedora's distro Inkscape would be
> resolved by the time of Fedora 39 release.
> I tested Fedora 39 beta and was disappointed to see more or less the
> same crashes of command-line runs of Inkscape as those under Fedora 38.
> 
> As a matter of fact, even when Inkscape crashes, the export of PDF
> is complete most of the time.  So the crashing bug can be worked
> around by ignoring the error code from Inkscape and continue building.
> 
> This patch set implements the ad-hoc workaround in build scripts.
> 
> As you can see in Patch 1/3, the workaround is enabled by default.
> This is because enabling it won't do any harm on systems with
> stable Inkscape.
> 
> I might be able to add some heuristics not to enable the workaround
> for stable Inkscape installs, but that can wait.
> 
> Ubuntu releases 22.04LTS, 23.04, and 23.10 are free of this issue.

Ouch!

But look like a good approach.  Queued and pushed, thank you!

							Thanx, Paul

>         Thanks, Akira
> --
> Akira Yokosawa (3):
>   Ignore error of unstable Inkscape
>   Ignore emergency-save SVG files from Inkscape
>   Make sure all PDF conversions are complete
> 
>  .gitignore |  1 +
>  Makefile   | 17 ++++++++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: 84759ebac65a03aa28c5b02007e6c472b3416d3d
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>