Re: psnup and psutils

On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 10:21:41PM -0600, Austin Hook wrote:
>
> Using an amd64 running release version of 6.7
>
> 1) Looks to me that psutils depends on
>
> p5-IPC-Run3-0.048.tgz
>
> because I had to pkg_add it to make psnup work.
>
> Maybe it's missing from the dependencies?

Yup, that was fixed 3+ months ago in current.

> 2) There is also an error in psutils in line 77
> where a second "my dimension" declaration occurs.
>
> You won't hit it unless specifying
>
> psnup -P letter ....
>
> and the A4 folks won't even notice, because it won't go there.

Also yup, that was fixed 2+ months ago in current.

> 3) Looked to me that the psutils makefile asks for the latest version, but
> the accidental re-declaration of the local variable my dimension above,
> doesn't seem to show up even if I delete and re-install psutils. Looks
> like that error was fixed more than a year ago. A pkg_add -r doesn't
> seem to help.
>
> 4) On my system apparently there needs to be some kind of paper() function
> installed somewhere, but I don't see where. Otherwise, I shouldn't have
> to specify "-P letter" paper size. Anyone know the answer to this?
>
> Didn't there used to be something one had to put into /etc that could be
> interrogated? Scanning the code for psutils it seems to say it tries to
> determine the default papersize but I see neither the function that tries
> to get it, nor the specs for what has to be in /etc.

What you're looking for is /etc/papersize.

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Antoine