Author: randy
Date: 2005-12-18 12:17:23 -0700 (Sun, 18 Dec 2005)
New Revision: 5445
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/pst/printing/espgs.xml
Log:
Updated to ESP Ghostscript-8.15.1
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2005-12-18 07:04:59 UTC (rev 5444)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2005-12-18 19:17:23 UTC (rev 5445)
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@
<!ENTITY cups-version "1.1.23">
<!ENTITY LPRng-version "3.8.28">
<!ENTITY gs-version "8.51">
-<!ENTITY espgs-version "7.07.1">
+<!ENTITY espgs-version "8.15.1">
<!ENTITY gimp-print-version "4.2.7">
<!-- Chapter 42 -->
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2005-12-18 07:04:59 UTC
(rev 5444)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2005-12-18 19:17:23 UTC
(rev 5445)
@@ -45,8 +45,11 @@
<para>December 18th, 2005</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[randy] - Updated to ESP Ghostscript-8.15.1.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[bdubbs] - Changed configure instruction in gimp to
- use recommended dependecies. Added note that the switches
+ use recommended dependencies. Added note that the switches
to configure need to be changed if the recommended
dependencies are not installed.</para>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/pst/printing/espgs.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/pst/printing/espgs.xml 2005-12-18 07:04:59 UTC (rev 5444)
+++ trunk/BOOK/pst/printing/espgs.xml 2005-12-18 19:17:23 UTC (rev 5445)
@@ -4,20 +4,20 @@
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
- <!ENTITY espgs-download-http
"http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/espgs/espgs-&espgs-version;-source.tar.bz2";>
- <!ENTITY espgs-download-ftp
"ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-current/source/ap/espgs/espgs-&espgs-version;-source.tar.bz2";>
- <!ENTITY espgs-md5sum "d30bf5c09f2c7caa8291f6305cf03044">
- <!ENTITY espgs-size "5.3 MB">
- <!ENTITY espgs-buildsize "128 MB (includes installing libgs.so and both
font tarballs)">
- <!ENTITY espgs-time "1.94 SBU (includes building and installing
libgs.so)">
+ <!ENTITY espgs-download-http
"http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/ghostscript/&espgs-version;/espgs-&espgs-version;-source.tar.bz2";>
+ <!ENTITY espgs-download-ftp
"ftp://ftp3.easysw.com/pub/ghostscript/&espgs-version;/espgs-&espgs-version;-source.tar.bz2";>
+ <!ENTITY espgs-md5sum "2a21136953c3559e6088522753b06b1f">
+ <!ENTITY espgs-size "7.7 MB">
+ <!ENTITY espgs-buildsize "103.6 MB (includes installing libgs.so and
both font tarballs)">
+ <!ENTITY espgs-time "2.2 SBU (includes building and installing
libgs.so)">
<!ENTITY espgs-standard-fonts-download
"ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz";>
<!ENTITY espgs-standard-fonts-md5sum "6865682b095f8c4500c54b285ff05ef6">
<!ENTITY espgs-standard-fonts-size "3.7 MB">
- <!ENTITY espgs-other-fonts-download
"http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ghostscript/gnu-gs-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz";>
- <!ENTITY espgs-other-fonts-md5sum "33457d3f37de7ef03d2eea05a9e6aa4f">
- <!ENTITY espgs-other-fonts-size "796 KB">
+ <!ENTITY espgs-other-fonts-download
"http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ghostscript/gnu-gs-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz";>
+ <!ENTITY espgs-other-fonts-md5sum "33457d3f37de7ef03d2eea05a9e6aa4f">
+ <!ENTITY espgs-other-fonts-size "796 KB">
]>
<sect1 id="espgs" xreflabel="ESP Ghostscript-&espgs-version;">
@@ -105,10 +105,8 @@
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="cups"/>,
<xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
<xref linkend="libpng"/>,
- X (<xref linkend="xfree86"/> or <xref linkend="xorg"/>),
- <xref linkend="GLib"/>,
- <xref linkend="GTK"/> and
- <xref linkend="gimp-print"/></para>
+ X (<xref linkend="xfree86"/> or <xref linkend="xorg"/>), and
+ <xref linkend="GTK"/></para>
</sect2>
@@ -118,24 +116,33 @@
<para>Install <application>ESP Ghostscript</application>
by running the following commands:</para>
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --without-gimp-print
--without-omni &&
+<screen><userinput>sed -i "s/bbox.dev$/x11.dev/" Makefile.in &&
+./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-threads --without-omni &&
make</userinput></screen>
<para>This package does not come with a test suite. However, you may test
the operation of the newly built <command>gs</command> program by issuing
the following command (issue from an X Windows terminal):</para>
-<screen><userinput>bin/gs -Ilib examples/tiger.ps</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>bin/gs -Ilib -dBATCH examples/tiger.eps</userinput></screen>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
-<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
+rmdir -v /usr/lib/ghostscript/8.15 /usr/lib/ghostscript &&
+ln -v -s ../ghostscript/8.15/doc /usr/share/doc/espgs-&espgs-version;
&&
+for INSTFILE in `ls doc`
+do
+ if [ ! -f /usr/share/doc/espgs-&espgs-version;/$INSTFILE ]; then
+ install -v -m644 doc/$INSTFILE /usr/share/doc/espgs-&espgs-version;/
+ fi
+done</userinput></screen>
<para>To install the shared library
<filename class='libraryfile'>libgs.so</filename> you will need
<xref linkend="GTK"/>. Note that the shared library is only used in
external programs such as <xref linkend="gsview"/> and
- <xref linkend="imagemagick"/>. Proceed with the following commands as an
+ <xref linkend="imagemagick"/>. Proceed with the following command as an
unprivileged user:</para>
<screen><userinput>make CFLAGS_SO='-fPIC $(ACDEFS)' so</userinput></screen>
@@ -149,30 +156,36 @@
<para>To finish the installation, unpack all fonts you've downloaded to
<filename class="directory">/usr/share/ghostscript</filename> and ensure
- the ownerships of the files are root:root. Substitute
- <replaceable>[font-tarball]</replaceable> appropriately in
+ the ownerships of the files are
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:<systemitem
class="groupname">root</systemitem>.
+ Substitute <replaceable>[font-tarball]</replaceable> appropriately in
the command below for the fonts you wish to install:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xvf
../<replaceable>[font-tarball]</replaceable> -C /usr/share/ghostscript
&&
-chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts</userinput></screen>
+chown -v root:root /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/*</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
- <para><parameter>--without-gimp-print</parameter>: This switch disables
- the building of the <application>GIMP</application> print driver as a
- <application>Ghostscript</application> device since this is deprecated.
- This driver may be still accessible via IJS or
- <application>CUPS</application>, and this is the preferred way.</para>
+ <para><command>sed -i "s/bbox.dev$/x11.dev/" Makefile.in</command>:
+ This command changes the default <command>gs</command> output device from
+ the bbox driver to the x11 (screen) driver.</para>
+ <para><parameter>--enable-threads</parameter>: This parameter enables
+ threaded output.</para>
+
<para><parameter>--without-omni</parameter>: This switch disables the
omni driver support.</para>
<para><option>--without-ijs</option>: This switch disables the
IJS driver support.</para>
+ <para><command>rmdir -v /usr/lib/ghostscript/...</command>: These two
+ directories are removed as they were created during the installation,
+ but unpopulated.</para>
+
<para><command>install ...</command>: Some packages
(<application>ImageMagick</application> is one) need the
<application>Ghostscript</application> interface headers in place to link
@@ -182,6 +195,10 @@
packages expect to find the interface headers in an alternate
location.</para>
+ <para><command>for INSTFILE in `ls doc` ...</command>: This
+ <quote>for</quote> loop installs some documentation files that were not
+ installed during the installation process.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
@@ -195,9 +212,9 @@
<seglistitem>
<seg>bdftops, dvipdf, eps2eps, fixmswrd.pl, font2c, gs, gsbj, gsc,
gsdj,
gsdj500, gslj, gslp, gsnd, gsx, lprsetup.sh, pdf2dsc, pdf2ps, pdfopt,
- pf2afm, pfbtopfa, pj-gs.sh, printafm, ps2ascii, ps2epsi, ps2pdf,
- ps2pdf12, ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14, ps2pdfwr, ps2ps, pv.sh, sysvlp.sh,
- unix-lpr.sh, and wftopfa</seg>
+ pf2afm, pfbtopfa, printafm, ps2ascii, ps2epsi, ps2pdf,ps2pdf12,
+ ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14, ps2pdfwr, ps2ps, pv.sh, unix-lpr.sh, and
+ wftopfa</seg>
<seg>libgs.so </seg>
<seg>/usr/include/ps and /usr/share/ghostscript</seg>
</seglistitem>
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