mxe-octave: ghostscript 9.07, why not 9.10

[sergey plotnikov]

Hi all,

I've cross-built recent development version of Octave for Windows using MXE-Octave (also, one of the recent csets) and after some testing get into a trouble which I'm not sure caused by Octave itself. Sometimes when trying to print a figure to pdf (print('-dpdf',..)) Octave may hang on waiting before gs.exe completed writing into a pdf-file. But as a matter of fact gs.exe doesn't want to finish and continues writing into pdf inflating its size gradually approaching infinity (last time I forgot to kill gs.exe process my one-page pdf reached 600Gb).

This bug looks quite similar to GS bug #693591 [http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693591] which was fixed in gs9.10. And according to my recent testing, use of separately installed gs9.10 instead of default Octave gs.exe helps.

So my questions is rather easy, do you by any chance plan to switch GS version in MXE-Octave from 9.07 to 9.10? If not, it might worth to apply a patch fixing this bug in GS source [http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=dfd7fc9fe152245256e437141dd7780c8313c971].

Sorry, if I overlooked existing discussion on this topic.

Sergey