On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 02:30:38AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> For most people, even those who actively use latex, this will
> probably be uninteresting - but the files / source are there in case
> they are useful.
> 
> I've just uploaded latex-test-20160523.tar.xz to higgs, at
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tex-testfiles/ and refreshed
> the ABOUT.pdf file in the same directory.
> 

Just in case anybody cares about testing asymptote: with the
*binary* 2016 texlive on a system built with gcc-6.1, the asy tests
failed (although they were fine on plain 7.9 systems) : the 3D
test hung and the fix was to add -V to the invocation of asy in the
Makefile.  And similarly with from-source asymptote with all of the
possible dpendencies.

For the 2D test, it completed but put the initial line of text on
the first page, like a title, with the picture on a second page.
I did not notice if that was true with the from-source asymptote, I
had gone back to a fresh binary install before I noticed.  I've
worked around that by making the title into a label and then
suppressing the now-empty first/title page.  Oddly, the similar setup
in the 3D test continues to all go onto a single page.

There is a similar problem when running asy on the more-complex 3D
tests (those which require freeglut) in my asy-tests.  There, adding
-V to the asy invocation has a side effect: instead of creating a
new output file in the expected format, it displays it (and for
these you can rotate it which is cool and avoids the need for a
suitable program to view eps or png files), but at the cost of not
getting an updated output file.

I have updated both tarballs to 20160624 versions (dated for my
timezone) - for the asy tests the new behaviour is merely noted in
the README.

Now, hopefully, I can get on with the full from-source TL 2016.
Asymptote is a hard mistress.

ĸen
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