May need a ghostscript maintainer
Robert Collins
robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Thu May 3 14:14:00 GMT 2001
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norman Vine" <nhv@cape.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 10:58 PM
Subject: RE: May need a ghostscript maintainer
> Earnie Boyd writes:
> >
>
> I believe this is the norm an is the 'approved' ghostscript 'way'
>
> FYI in 'true' hacker style all I did to get this to work was
> 1) start with the supplied unix-gcc.mak
> 2) remove all 'X" references
> 3) add appropriate references to Chucks jpeg png and zlib ports
> 4) rename it cygwin.mak
> 5) with Rob Collins help work around some then missing thread stuff
> < as of Cygwin 1.3 this is no longer necessary :-)) >
>
> Hopefully the 'official' porter of Ghostscript will get the library to
build
> as a DLL but in the interim I thought that this would obliviate the
need
> for a ghostscript package at all as this method just WORKS !!
>
> Anyway since this appears to be controversial
> I will NOT submit a patch to the ghostscript team
> and remain content with my personal installation
It doesn't seem very controversial to me: just the usual
"this isn't the most-easy-for-novice-package-foo-users"
"Well it is for this package because-its-in-the-dark-ages"
"ok. What about feature foo"
:].
I'd strongly suggest you submit a patch to the packge authors - as long
as disabling the X stuff is a compile time option, not a
cygwin-platform-dependent-option.
(I happen to have X :])
As for the makefile name, just follow the naming convention for the
package :]]
Doing this will make the new ghostscript maintainers job easier! Thanks
for getting out and doing this...
Rob
> Cheers
>
> Norman Vine
>
>
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