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Re: May need a ghostscript maintainer
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: May need a ghostscript maintainer
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 23:55:29 -0400
- Cc: kevin at wright dot org
- References: <20010423161323.A24872@redhat.com> <000801c0d37d$f8019580$a300a8c0@nhv>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:05:53PM -0400, Norman Vine wrote:
>Christopher Faylor writes:
>>>
>>Is anyone willing to maintain this? We need to provide an X-less
>>version of ghostscript. Norman Vine has managed to do this, so it is
>>not an impossible feat:
>>
>>http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/cygwin/gs6.62/
>>
>>If someone would like to volunteer to do this, please respond to this
>>thread.
>
>FYI
>I just downloaded the ghostscript 7.0 source and for the heck of it
>just tried the makefile linked from my page with out applying any of
>the other fixes that I mention
>
>Lo and behold gs compiled and made pdf's of all the examples. :-))
>
>This was on a binary mounted drive so there may be a fopen bug
>lurking somewhere but ....
Hmm. I got email from Kevin Wright (ghostscript maintainer) indicating
that he'd had problems with ghostscript due to the scanf bug. He was
going to wait for a new cygwin version before announcing a new
ghostscript version (pressure, pressure).
Kevin, are you reading this?
cgf
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