Current package in tree is versioned 20090611_p1038_p20210603, and seems to be based on a dead SRC_URI ( https://cse.osu.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/fix/tex4ht-1.0.2009_06_11_1038.tar.gz ) which luckily is still on mirrors. Actual upstream is still alive and recently added some fixes for long-standing memory issues (invalid reads etc.): https://svn.gnu.org.ua/viewvc/tex4ht/trunk/lit/tex4ht-c.tex?view=log It would be good to see a new snapshot packaged using upstream as source with those fixes included. Might be blocked by: https://bugs.gentoo.org/836779 (TeXlive version bump) Reproducible: Always
It's somewhat complicated. The package is based on the last release from Eitan Gurari, and we add/replace the parts that are available with the TeXLive distribution (which misses some directories). In other words, large parts of the package are a snapshot from https://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/tex4ht.tar.xz corresponding to the latest TeXLive that is packaged in Gentoo (which is 2021, at the time being). (In reply to Oliver Freyermuth from comment #0) > It would be good to see a new snapshot packaged using upstream as source > with those fixes included. An unsynced update of the snapshot is generally not a good idea and has caused problems in the past. However, I'd be happy to apply a patch for the memory issue if you attach it here.
Created attachment 872926 [details, diff] Patch fixing invalid read and accesses to undefined variables (In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1) > An unsynced update of the snapshot is generally not a good idea and has > caused problems in the past. > > However, I'd be happy to apply a patch for the memory issue if you attach it > here. I see, that's very understandable. I have attached a patch which incorporates commits r1387 and r1391 from https://svn.gnu.org.ua/viewvc/tex4ht/trunk/ , which are present in TeXlive as r68541 (c.f. https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/tex4htk/tex4ht.c ). Kudos go to Karl Berry, who has taken over from Eitan Gurari, for developing the actual patch after I tracked down and reported the problems: https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/bugs/?611 Thanks in advance for taking the patch!
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0d90a39ef74113812f54e1a1b83a711cdef054d4 commit 0d90a39ef74113812f54e1a1b83a711cdef054d4 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-10-15 17:12:23 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-10-15 17:14:13 +0000 dev-tex/tex4ht: Fix segmentation fault in tex4ht binary Update to EAPI 8. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/915782 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> dev-tex/tex4ht/files/tex4ht-invalid-read.patch | 35 ++++++ .../tex4ht-20090611_p1038_p20210603-r1.ebuild | 135 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 170 insertions(+)
Thanks for reporting!
