From 4c480e0ef1029d4c29ebb02b05dd7b2e285b7163 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ivan <ivan>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:38:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] better error checking/reporting for latex setup problems

---
 FS/FS/cust_bill.pm | 29 +++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/FS/FS/cust_bill.pm b/FS/FS/cust_bill.pm
index cc39ab1f7..61cc22922 100644
--- a/FS/FS/cust_bill.pm
+++ b/FS/FS/cust_bill.pm
@@ -1535,13 +1535,16 @@ sub print_ps {
 
   my $file = $self->print_latex(@_);
 
-  #error checking!!
-  system('pslatex', "$file.tex");
-  system('pslatex', "$file.tex");
-  system('dvips', '-q', '-t', 'letter', "$file.dvi", '-o', "$file.ps" );
+  system("pslatex $file.tex >/dev/null 2>&1") == 0
+    or die "pslatex failed: $!";
+  system("pslatex $file.tex >/dev/null 2>&1") == 0
+    or die "pslatex failed: $!";
+
+  system('dvips', '-q', '-t', 'letter', "$file.dvi", '-o', "$file.ps" ) == 0
+    or die "dbips failed: $!";
 
   open(POSTSCRIPT, "<$file.ps")
-    or die "can't open $file.ps (probable error in LaTeX template): $!\n";
+    or die "can't open $file.ps: $! (error in LaTeX template?)\n";
 
   unlink("$file.dvi", "$file.log", "$file.aux", "$file.ps", "$file.tex");
 
@@ -1576,15 +1579,21 @@ sub print_pdf {
   #system('pdflatex', "$file.tex");
   #! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps.
 
-  #error checking!!
-  system('pslatex', "$file.tex");
-  system('pslatex', "$file.tex");
+  system("pslatex $file.tex >/dev/null 2>&1") == 0
+    or die "pslatex failed: $!";
+  system("pslatex $file.tex >/dev/null 2>&1") == 0
+    or die "pslatex failed: $!";
 
   #system('dvipdf', "$file.dvi", "$file.pdf" );
-  system("dvips -q -t letter -f $file.dvi | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$file.pdf -c save pop -");
+  system(
+    "dvips -q -t letter -f $file.dvi ".
+    "| gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$file.pdf ".
+    "     -c save pop -"
+  ) == 0
+    or die "dvips failed: $!";
 
   open(PDF, "<$file.pdf")
-    or die "can't open $file.pdf (probably error in LaTeX tempalte: $!\n";
+    or die "can't open $file.pdf: $! (error in LaTeX template?)\n";
 
   unlink("$file.dvi", "$file.log", "$file.aux", "$file.pdf", "$file.tex");
 
-- 
2.11.0