on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:23:07AM -0800, Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0800, "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> > wrote: > > > on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:03:18AM -0800, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > > I'm finding gv is almost unusable under Sid due to font errors, e.g.:
<...> > > > Do you have the GS_LIB environment variable set to these two directories? > > > If not, try that and see if it helps. > > > > Interesting. I've got that in my /etc/profile (I *thought* I'd added > > something like it), added Dec 13: > > > > export GS_LIB=/usr/share/gs/6.51:/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts > > > > ...but the value doesn't seem to be getting propogated (I'm starting via > > wdm). I've changed /etc/environment to just source /etc/profile. > > > > Setting that value (forced in my ~/.bashrc) seems to fix things. > > After updating gs-aladdin & gs-common today, I started to see these > errors as well. But, the problem is not that you should need a GS_LIB > environment variable, but that gs-common seems to not invoke the > proper "defoma" install/update script. So, I looked at the > README.defoma for gs-common, and right there is a line about updating > defoma via "defoma update gs" -- sure enough, it works. Hmmm... I just ran that as root, launched a new shell, unset GS_LIB, and tried viewing a ps page: $ df | mapage -1 | gv -letter -magstep -1 - ...which doesn't work. I get the same font errors. Restoring the environment variable works. Odd. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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