On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:20:18AM -0400, Joe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm curious as to the state of CUPS and Ghostscript in BLFS. About nine > months ago, I tried to build them with the instructions in 6.2 and > couldn't get it to work. I ended up installing GPL Ghostscript 8.57, > instead of the 8.15.2 version recommended at the time. I see the > versions have moved slightly since then. According to the Wikipedia > Ghostscript article, ESP Ghostscript "is no longer developed, since it > was merged with GPL Ghostscript" and AFPL Ghostscript "is now > abandoned", yet BLFS svn still uses both. > To answer the last point first, I don't think there has been a release of gs since the change, but I could be wrong.
As to cups and gs in BLFS - I now have an epson r360 inkjet : on x86 and LFS-6.3 it works very well with cups-1.2.12, espgs-8.15.4, foomatic-filters-3.0.2, gutenprint-5.0.2 (using the regular ppd from gutenprint for normal prints, and using the gutenprint plugin for the gimp for photos). 'Couldn't get it to work' is too vague to comment on, although I realise it was 9 months ago. Did the build instructions not work for you, or did the installed software not work ? Did you do anything different when you installed 8.57 ? And what was the host system / version of gcc ? ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
