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Re: May need a ghostscript maintainer
- To: nhv at cape dot com
- Subject: Re: May need a ghostscript maintainer
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 08:12:31 -0400
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <000801c0d37d$f8019580$a300a8c0@nhv>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Norman Vine wrote:
>
> Christopher Faylor writes:
> >>
> >Is anyone willing to maintain this? We need to provide an X-less
> >version of ghostscript. Norman Vine has managed to do this, so it is
> >not an impossible feat:
> >
> >http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/cygwin/gs6.62/
> >
> >If someone would like to volunteer to do this, please respond to this
> >thread.
>
> FYI
> I just downloaded the ghostscript 7.0 source and for the heck of it
> just tried the makefile linked from my page with out applying any of
> the other fixes that I mention
>
> Lo and behold gs compiled and made pdf's of all the examples. :-))
>
> This was on a binary mounted drive so there may be a fopen bug
> lurking somewhere but ....
>
> My question to the list is
> "Should I submit my makefile to the ghostscript maintainers
> for inclusion in the main ghostscript distribution as cygwin.mak"
>
Yuck!! How about modifying the configure.in to do the right thing for
Cygwin?!
> Then I believe to get a functional ghostscript one would only
> need to unpack the tarball and do
>
> % ln -s src/cygwin.mak
> % make
>
The reason I don't like this much is that it makes me too dependent on
your configuration and I wouldn't do it by default because it's not the
norm.
Earnie.
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