Current PGF maintainer here.
PGF requires e-TeX. Try with etex, pdftex, luatex, or xetex.
Requiring e-TeX is a good assumption in my opinion because it was
introduced in 1998, i.e. is 20 years old today.
We will not make PGF non-e-TeX compatible, sorry.
Kind regards, Henri
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 20:34:08 +0100 Roland Rosenfeld <rol...@debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: texlive-pictures
> Version: 2018.20190122-1
> Severity: important
>
> On upgrade from 2018.20181214-1 to 2018.20190122-1 the testsuite of
> fig2dev package fails.
>
> The root cause for this seems to be in a change of pgf code.
>
> The fig2dev testsuite runs
>
> $ tex test.tex
>
> with the following test.tex input file:
>
> ------------------- snipp ---------------------
> \input tikz
> \bye
> ------------------- snipp ---------------------
>
> with the old version this runs without problems, while with the
> current version this fails with the following output:
>
> ------------------- snipp ---------------------
> $ tex test.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2019/dev/Debian) (preloaded
> format=tex)
> (./test.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/basiclayer/pgf.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-common.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-common-lists.t
> ex))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-plain.def
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/atbegshi.sty
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.code.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/pgf.revision.tex)))
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/basiclayer/pgfcore.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.tex)
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys.code.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfkeys.code.tex
> (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfkeysfiltered.code.t
> ex))
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> \pgfkeyssetevalue ...gfkeys@temptoks =\scantokens
> \expandafter
> {\expandafter...
>
> \pgfkeys@ifcsname ...\fi \ifpgfkeys@csname@test #2
> \else #3\fi
> \pgfkeys@ifcsname ...gfkeys@csname@test #2\else #3
> \fi
> \pgfkeys@ifcsname ...gfkeys@csname@test #2\else #3
> \fi
> \pgfkeys@unpack ...pgfeov \else \pgfkeys@case@one
> \fi \fi
> \pgfkeys@@normal ...pgfkeysnovalue =\pgfkeys@stop
> \pgfkeys@parse
> ...
