This bug is still present in Precise. I also verified that adding the shebang line to epstopdf fixes the problem.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to texlive-extra in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/613040 Title: epstopdf has no #! line, can't be invoked by scripts (Debian patch available) Status in Rubber — a wrapper for LaTeX and friends: Invalid Status in “rubber” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “texlive-extra” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: epstopdf invokes perl using: eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' && eval 'exec perl -S $0 $argv:q' …when it should instead use: #!/usr/bin/perl The debian package (texlive-binaries; source package texlive-bin) contains patches which fix this bug, and similar bugs in a2ping, pdfcrop, thumbpdf and vpe. Original description ==================== Binary package hint: rubber A LaTeX document I want to compile to PDF using rubber contains Postscript files. These files have to be converted, but the call to epstopdf fails: $ rubber -vv -d document.tex ... converting figure.eps to PDF... executing: epstopdf --outfile=figure.pdf figure.eps Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/rubber", line 9, in <module> sys.exit(Main()(sys.argv[1:])) File "/usr/share/rubber/rubber/cmdline.py", line 296, in __call__ return self.main(cmdline) File "/usr/share/rubber/rubber/cmdline.py", line 260, in main ret = env.final.make(self.force) File "/usr/share/rubber/rubber/__init__.py", line 223, in make ret = src.make() File "/usr/share/rubber/rubber/__init__.py", line 237, in make ret = self.run() File "/usr/share/rubber/rubber/rules/shell.py", line 34, in run if self.env.execute(cmd): File "/usr/share/rubber/rubber/__init__.py", line 705, in execute os.execve(progname, prog, penv) OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error process 6231 (epstopdf) returned 256 'epstopdf' failed The Gentoo bugzilla has an entry describing the same problem: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289818 Basically, the problem is with the silly perl locating trickery in the first line of epstopdf. Rubber just tries to execute it as an executable, but there is no shebang. This is rubber package 1.1-2.2ubuntu1 and texlive-font-utils 2009-7ubuntu3 (containing epstopdf) on Ubuntu Lucid / 10.04. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rubber/+bug/613040/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
