On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 21:05:22 -0800 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 01/03/03 20:31, Joel Hammer wrote: > > You might find it easier just to get a version of gs which has your > > driver compiled in it. As I recall, trying to compile gs was beyond > > me. > > > > Joel > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 09:29:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I've been trying to get my printer, lexmark 3200, working under > >> debian. It worked under mandrake before so I know it works with > >> linux. After much RTFM, I found out the driver for this printer > >> wasn't compiled into the debian pre-packaged gs. So my question is > >> how do you compile a driver into gs that doesn't come standard? Has > >> anyone needed to do this before? > > Agreed. I remember attempting to help a friend compile a print driver > in ghostscript about 2 years ago. I was praying to be thrown into a > circle of hell after fighting with it for a few hours. ghostscript is > one of those ancient UNIX legacy apps that really needs a massive > overhaul. Its been ported to death and really is utterly frightening > in its internals. Well, I got it done. Perhaps I should have RTFMed a bit more before posting to the list. I found my answers in the README in the source dir for my driver, and the Make.html and Drivers.html files in the 'doc/' dir of my ghostscript source tree. At first glance I thought the Drivers.html file was aimed at developers, but only some of it is. The README file helped me understand what was in there. Once I cd'ed into the top level dir of the ghostscript source tree, I copied my driver source file into 'src/' and added a few lines to 'src/contrib.mak'. Then I ran ./configure and edited the resulting Makefile, adding one small entry there, then 'make' and 'make install'. I ran apsfilterconfig and now I have fully functional lexmark 3200 printer, and I now know more about printing than I thought I wanted to. ;-) Bill _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
