Hi,
while using and browsing through latex2html v 98.1 release, I found the
following (I'm on a Linux RedHat ix86 platform):
1) When I was specifying a $TMP dir, the first system("pnmcrop ...") of
pstoimg did fail with weird 'EOF not found' messages (but only the
first -- all others did succeed). Playing around with 'make_tmp_dir', I
wondered what the effect of the lines
open(STDOUT, ">${TMP}foo$$");
print STDOUT &getcwd;
close(STDOUT);
open(FOO,"<${TMP}foo$$");
$DESTDIR = <FOO>;
close(FOO); unlink "${TMP}foo$$";
is, except for kind of "messing up" STDOUT. Replacing these lines
simply by
$DESTDIR = &getcwd;
fixed my problem described above.
2) W.r.t. those remaining l2h$$ directories (may be this is even
connected to (1)?), i.e. w.r.t. cleaning up $TMPDIR: I have nowhere
(in latex2html) found a line which attempts to unlink files in
$TMPDIR, or which removes $TMPDIR. Adding the lines:
# clean up $TMPDIR, as well
if (opendir(DIR, "$TMPDIR")) {
local(@files) = readdir(DIR);
foreach (@files) { unlink "$TMPDIR$dd$_" }
closedir (DIR);
&write_warnings("\n\n Couldn't remove $TMPDIR : $!")
unless (rmdir "$TMPDIR");
}
to the end of the 'cleanup' routine, solved the problem for me.
3) Inroutine open_dbm_database: Replace line
dbmopen(%img_params, "${TMP}IMG_PARAMS",0755);
by
dbmopen(%img_params, "${TMP_}IMG_PARAMS",0755);
otherwise IMG_PARAMS is in cwd, and never removed.
4) The 'cp' routine is not foolproof: If $src and $dest are the same
files, then cp deletes content of $src. I suggest to add the
following lines, befor $src and $dest are opened:
local($sdev, $sino, $ddev, $dino);
($sdev, $sino) = stat($src);
($ddev, $dino) = stat($dest);
return if ($sdev == $ddev && $sino == $dino);
This should take care of it, as far as I can see -- don't know
whether is cross-platform compatible, though.
Olaf
