Re: ghostscript compile
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
Re: ghostscript compile
On 01/04/03 13:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Excellent, congrats. Could you write up a SxS on the process and send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? -- ~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 1:45pm up 20 days, 20:54, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.01 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: ghostscript compile
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? ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: ghostscript compile
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. -- ~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 9:00pm up 20 days, 4:09, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
