From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 02:00:18 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56C021065698; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:00:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@missouri.edu) Received: from mxtip01-umsystem-out.um.umsystem.edu (mxtip01-umsystem-out.um.umsystem.edu [209.106.229.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DE28FC0C; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:00:15 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAHcdx0zRauUo/2dsb2JhbAChVXG3WYhnhUgEhFeFDYN9 Received: from um-tsmtpout1.um.umsystem.edu ([209.106.229.40]) by mxtip01-mizzou-out.um.umsystem.edu with ESMTP; 26 Oct 2010 20:31:23 -0500 Received: from um-tsmtpout1.um.umsystem.edu ([209.106.229.35]) by um-tsmtpout1.um.umsystem.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:31:22 -0500 Received: from laptop3.gateway.2wire.net ([128.206.110.5]) by um-tsmtpout1.um.umsystem.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:31:22 -0500 Message-ID: <4CC780E9.7020402@missouri.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:31:21 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100801 Firefox MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grarpamp References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Oct 2010 01:31:22.0384 (UTC) FILETIME=[A9B2A900:01CB7576] Cc: "elhosots@gmail.com" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: ghostscript x11 [8-stable] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:00:19 -0000 grarpamp wrote: > An FYI regarding: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-October/222897.html > > This problem has existed for me for many months, if not more. Currently: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 110 1002 11407910 Oct 07 11:33 ghostscript8-8.71_6.tbz > 4a2328c262b08dc78938c66548117d27dc6a3586 ghostscript8-8.71_6.tbz > > running the command: gv t.ps > produces: > Unknown device: x11 > Unrecoverable error: undefined in .uninstallpagedevice > Operand stack: > defaultdevice My experience is that ghostscript isn't compiled with an x11 device in the following circumstances: I compile it in a jail, with BATCH=yes set in /etc/make.conf. If I don't compile it in a jail, and set the options the regular way, then it does seem to compile with the x11 device present. Maybe this will give people a clue as to where the error is. Maybe a bug in the default setting of options in the ports system?