Merge pull request #15565 from meeseeksmachine/auto-backport-of-pr-15556-on-v3.2.x

dstansby · web-flow · commit 088fdfc7a325 · 2019-10-29T09:04:14.000Z
Backport PR #15556 on branch v3.2.x (Fix test suite compat with ghostscript 9.50.)
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/testing/compare.py b/lib/matplotlib/testing/compare.py
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ def __call__(self, orig, dest):
         if not self._proc:
             self._proc = subprocess.Popen(
                 [mpl._get_executable_info("gs").executable,
-                 "-dNOPAUSE", "-sDEVICE=png16m"],
+                 "-dNOSAFER", "-dNOPAUSE", "-sDEVICE=png16m"],
                 # As far as I can see, ghostscript never outputs to stderr.
                 stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
             try:
