[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55225] building doc figures in .eps or .pdf format occasionally silently fails

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #33, bug #55225 (project octave):

Pantxo: I created a shim shell script 'epstool' that calls the real epstool
program and writes the command line and exit status to a log file:


#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/epstool "$@"
status=$?
echo "$(date "+%b %d %H:%M:%S.%N") /usr/bin/epstool $@ exited with status
$status" >> $HOME/epstool-runs.log
exit $status


I reproduced this problem again by deleting all images in doc/interpreter and
running make again. There are a total of 27 expected images. I got 27 .pdf,
.png, and .txt files, but only 25 .eps files. The two missing files this time
were 'inpolygon.eps' and 'mesh.eps'. Neither of those files are listed in the
file ~/epstool-runs.log, the epstool program was only called by Octave 25
times.

So it appears to me that the problem is somewhere in Octave / gl2ps, before it
gets to the point when it calls the epstool pipeline. Any ideas where to look
next?

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