via mail from dima.pasechnik@... -8<----------------------------------------- Current TeXLive's Gentoo xelatex fails to work with pstricks. (the symptoms are the same as in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=250323) This can be traced down to Gentoo's dvipdfmx.cfg The problem is in the call to "rungs" on line 159. It is called with -dSAFER option, but for pstricks to work one needs -dNOSAFER Note that in the same file there is a comment on the need to use -dNOSAFER, as follows: %% In TeX Live, we use the rungs wrapper instead of ps2pdf, becuse we %% must omit the -dSAFER which ps2pdf specifies: in order for pstricks %% to work with xetex, %% /usr/local/texlive/*/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pstricks.pro (for %% example) needs to be accessed. Somehow Gentoo ignores it, but it really is crucial. Upstream has a (recent) workaround. It provides scripts xetex-unsafe and xelatex-unsafe, for xetex+pstricks+transparency (cf. https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/commit/2e92bef787fa6cc17b87e7cf765216dac7438537) Reproducible: Always
Thanks. I realised just now I actually have an account on this tracker.
I'm not really sure we can safely just backport that ocmmit. It's probably easier to just wait and put more efforts into 2023 (which is ongoing, thanks to flow & negril), unless someone wants to give a precise patch which has been tested that we can apply.
