First point to note - for me, this works ok (but I only really use
it to view .ps prints of image files with 'display' from
ImageMagick) - using that to display text is "interesting".

 Second (key) point - it doesn't build agaisnt lcms2-2.4 :
http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2013-February/009402.html

 The fix mentioned there is to patch lcms2 by extracting some diffs
from github.  I _think_ that fedora have done this, but if *we* now
patch lcms2 it means anyone building gs-9.07 who wants to link it to
their system version of lcms2 will need to use the patched version.
I don't know if the changes have been accepted by upstream lcms2.

 AFAICS there are three options:

1. patch lcms2 for this, when adding gs-9.07 to the book.

2. temporarily drop the system lcms2 option (i.e. use the shipped
version of lcms2 - lcms1 is no longer the default although it
appears to be supported as an option (quite why anyone would want to
use lcms1, I have no idea :)

3. stick to gs-9.06, at least until lcms2 makes a new release.

 I don't have any strong feelings for, or against, any of these
options.  What do people think ?

 I'll also mention (in case people prefer option 3 for the book) that
9.07 will need some other changes:
· the shipped libtiff is now in the tiff/ directory
· I can't find any need to add LIBS=-lz, but then I didn't need it
  for 9.06 either - any references to why this was added, please ?
· jasper is no longer included
· gtk+-3, if present, is used in preference to gtk+-2.

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