Re: LyX 1.1.6fix2: problems loading PostScript files

[Dimitri PAPADOPOULOS-ORFANOS]

Hi,

> Beginning with LyX 1.1.6fix2 I cannot View->DVI this document:
>       ftp://ftp.cea.fr/incoming/y2k01/lyx/hist.lyx
> This used to work with LyX 1.1.6fix1.
> 
> This document contains some text and a ~1 Mb PostScript image:
>       ftp://ftp.cea.fr/incoming/y2k01/lyx/brodmann.ps
> 
> When I load the document I see this :
>       ftp://ftp.cea.fr/incoming/y2k01/lyx/lyx.png
> A GhostScript process is spawned and the image remains in this
> [rendering...] state forever. Both the GhostScript and LyX
> processes do not consume any significant CPU: between 0.0 and
> 0.1 %.

This I cannot reproduce today. The image is always rendered
inside the document:
        ftp://ftp.cea.fr/incoming/y2k01/lyx/lyx2.png
        
        
> Then when I select View->DVI, I see:
>       Converting from  latex to dvi
>       Running latex 
> on the standard output but nothing happens. I guess this is
> related to known bug 28.

This I can still reproduce. I've tried GhostScript 6.01, 6.50,
and 7.00 and LyX still freezes, consuming ~ 85% CPU.

Then I've compiled with egcs 1.1.2 instead of GCC 2.95.3 and
it works! So this was really related to the compiler or the
C++ library as far as I can tell.

So don't use GCC 2.95.3 to build LyX, at least on Solaris.

Thanks!
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Dimitri Papadopoulos