I built ghostscript-9.09 last night, and for the little use I now have for it, it works ok [ 1. shared library for ImageMagick which sort of works - 'display' treats any .ps file without a set background as transparent, and shows the text over a tiled two-tone grey window which is often hard to read. 2. it provides ps2pdf ]
But I couldn't get the tiger to display. There is a problem with the instructions in 9.07 (needs an extra -I to find gs_init.ps) and after fixing that the command ran but no display window was created. After sleeping on it, I tested the book's commands in 9.07 on an older system and after adding that -I got my tiger. Then I realised that my own builds were still using --with-drivers=ALL,x11 which no longer appears in the book. The strange thing is that we added that selection - ALL should be the default and should include x11 - to fix a similar no-tiger problem a few years ago. Summary - if you have an old script, compare the commands to what is in the book for the version you are building! I decided to note this here so that the NSA^Wgoogle can index it in case someone gets a similar problem in the future. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
