On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:09:20PM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote:
> Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> >>Unfortunately pplatex.exe is very unstable. Especially during testing on
> >>Windows 2000 it crashes all the time.
> >
> >This is weird. I run it on Windows 2000 and it works flawlessly.
>
> The crash is caused by a stack overflow. The problem however seems to be
> solved after I installed SP4 on the test system.
Good detective work! Indeed, I have SP4 installed but would have never
thought about it. After all, dvipost seems a so simple application...
In the meantime I have discovered that a native Windows build
needs another small patch. Please, find it attached.
However, LyX is not affected by this patch.
--
Enrico
--- main.c.orig 2006-05-29 17:56:20.000000000 +0200
+++ main.c 2006-05-30 20:52:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -241,6 +241,11 @@
p = strrchr(arg, '/');
+#ifdef _WIN32
+ if (!p)
+ p = strrchr(arg, '\\');
+#endif
+
if (p && p[1])
arg = p + 1;
