Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:31:54 -0800 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> Cc: freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ghostscript headaches Message-ID: <4365821A.4000904@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <4365667A.4090408@ywave.com> References: <4365667A.4090408@ywave.com>
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Micah wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running FBSD 5.4-release-p7. I've had gs-gnu 7.07 installed from > when I installed FBSD 5.3. I just installed scribus and it needs a > newer gs. I set WITH_GHOSTSCRIPT_AFPL=yes, deinstalled gs-gnu, > installed gs-afpl, and did a pkgdb -F. Scribus now worked right but > cups didn't. I tried portupgrade -f cups\* but it failed in > cups-pstoraster (see below). I thought I'd try gs-gpl, but I can't find > a WITH_GHOSTSCRIPT_GPL flag. A few messages on freebsd.org seems to > indicate that gs-gpl is the default, but then why am I stuck with > gs-gnu? Anyone have any words of advice on how to get an 8.x gs running > on my machine with cups? > > Thanks, > Micah > > trisha# pwd > /usr/ports/print/cups-pstoraster > trisha# make build > ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found > ===> Extracting for cups-pstoraster-8.15 > => Checksum OK for ghostscript/espgs-8.15rc3-source.tar.bz2. > ===> Patching for cups-pstoraster-8.15 > ===> cups-pstoraster-8.15 depends on file: /nonexistent - not found > ===> Verifying patch for /nonexistent in > /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-afpl > ===> Returning to build of cups-pstoraster-8.15 > ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for cups-pstoraster-8.15 > /bin/ln -sf > /usr/ports/print/cups-pstoraster/work/espgs-8.15rc3/pstoraster/gdevcups.c > $(/bin/realpath /usr/ports)/print/ghostscript-afpl/work/ghostscript/src > ln: /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-afpl/work/ghostscript/src: No such file > or directory > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/print/cups-pstoraster. > After digging through patches and problem reports, I was able to piece together something. cups-pstoraster seems partially broken. It works with gs-gpl only if GHOSTSCRIPT_PORT=print/ghostscript-gpl. I don't know if it will work with gs-afpl. I just don't want to recompile everything again just to see if it works. I now have a working cups /and/ a working scribus and GHOSTSCRIPT_PORT set in my make.conf. Later, Micah
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