On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Daniel Macks <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:35:42PM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: >> Daniel Macks wrote: >> >On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:37:45PM +0100, daglio wrote: >> >>Hi there, >> >>Is there anyone having problems with ghostscript and X11 when looking >> >>at ps/eps files? >> >>I have Snow Leopard 10.6.2 and fink 64bits. I've compiled >> >>ghostscript/ghostview and when doing >> >>gs -h I do not see the x11 device in the list of available devices. >> >> >> >>out of disperation I tried to install the older version available in >> >>the fink archive, i.e. ghostscript6 and then it worked. >> >> >> >>I wouldn't say that I am a deep expert in this matter, but I've been >> >>working with mac and linux for many years and I never encountered this >> >>problem thus far..anyone else? >> >>is this a known problem with a easy solution? >> > >> >Some time long ago in the gs development, they switched from a >> >monolithic binary to having some plugin support, with X11-related >> >devices being a plugin. The display device is apparently part of the >> >x11 plugin and its being enabled is dependent on x11 being detected at >> >build-time. However, on the darwin platform, the display device is >> >explicitly disabled even if x11 is detected and undoing that doesn't >> >seem to revive the display device. >> >> But the x11 device is there anyway, even if display isn't, AFAICT. The >> X11 detection in the absence of xmkmf was added to ghostscript.info only >> recently, and not at all in the stable tree, as I am seeing now. I'll >> add it to stable, too. Maybe Aldo's problem will then go away. > > Ah yes, closer reading looks like Aldo only needs fix for the simpler > x11 detection issue, not the deeper "even if found" other problem. > > dan >
I'm sorry, but it is not clear to me what I should do. xmkmf is already installed on my system I feel a bit uncomfortable in wasting your time for such a stupid issue...but I'm a bit lost. thanks Aldo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
