Author: andy
Date: 2011-11-24 03:35:46 -0700 (Thu, 24 Nov 2011)
New Revision: 9007
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/pst/printing/gs.xml
Log:
Updated ghostscript to 9.04
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2011-11-23 23:25:44 UTC (rev 9006)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2011-11-24 10:35:46 UTC (rev 9007)
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@
<!-- Chapter 42 -->
<!ENTITY cups-version "1.5.0">
<!ENTITY LPRng-version "3.8.B">
-<!ENTITY gs-version "9.00">
+<!ENTITY gs-version "9.04">
<!ENTITY gutenprint-version "5.2.5">
<!-- Obsolete
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2011-11-23 23:25:44 UTC
(rev 9006)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2011-11-24 10:35:46 UTC
(rev 9007)
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>November 24th, 2011</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[abenton] - Updated ghostscript to 9.04.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>November 23rd, 2011</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/pst/printing/gs.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/pst/printing/gs.xml 2011-11-23 23:25:44 UTC (rev 9006)
+++ trunk/BOOK/pst/printing/gs.xml 2011-11-24 10:35:46 UTC (rev 9007)
@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@
<!-- <!ENTITY gs-download-http
"&sourceforge-repo;/ghostscript/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.bz2"> -->
<!-- FIXME use .bz2 or .xz when updating, if they are available -->
- <!ENTITY gs-download-http
"http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.gz";>
+ <!ENTITY gs-download-http
"http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.bz2";>
<!-- no response 2010-12-18
<!ENTITY gs-download-ftp
"ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs900/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.gz";>
-->
<!ENTITY gs-download-ftp " ">
- <!ENTITY gs-md5sum "a402462478b4cdda3e1816899227b845">
- <!ENTITY gs-size "22.3 MB">
- <!ENTITY gs-buildsize "170 MB (includes installing libgs.so and both
font tarballs)">
- <!ENTITY gs-time "2.7 SBU (includes building and installing
libgs.so)">
+ <!ENTITY gs-md5sum "9f6899e821ab6d78ab2c856f10fa3023">
+ <!ENTITY gs-size "28.5 MB">
+ <!ENTITY gs-buildsize "297 MB (includes installing libgs.so and both
font tarballs)">
+ <!ENTITY gs-time "2.5 SBU (includes building and installing
libgs.so)">
<!-- <!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-download
"ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz";>
-->
<!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-download
"&sourceforge-repo;/gs-fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz">
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
for PostScript data with the ability to render PostScript to different
targets.</para>
- &lfs67_checked;
+ &lfs70_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
@@ -98,20 +98,6 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <title>Patches</title>
- <listitem>
- <para>Required patch: <ulink
- url="&patch-root;/ghostscript-&gs-version;-security_fixes-1.patch"/>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Recommended patch (unless you build without JPEG2000 support) :
<ulink
- url="&patch-root;/ghostscript-&gs-version;-system_jasper-1.patch"/>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Ghostscript Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
@@ -133,7 +119,7 @@
<xref linkend="x-window-system"/>, and
<!-- the link for ijs source ultimately takes users back to the
ghostscript site
<ulink url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/ijs/";>IJS</ulink>, and -->
- <ulink
url="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libpaper";>libpaper</ulink></para>
+ <ulink
url="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libpaper";>libpaper</ulink>.</para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
<ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gs"/></para>
@@ -152,142 +138,126 @@
libraries, you must do it using unconventional methods.</para>
</note>
- <para>Begin by patching some vulnerabilities:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i
../ghostscript-&gs-version;-security_fixes-1.patch
-</userinput></screen>
-
<para><application>GPL Ghostscript</application> includes (old) copies of
several libraries. Some of these seem to have been patched to fix known
vulnerabilities, but others of these copies are less-well maintained.
To ensure that any future fixes are applied throughout the whole system,
- it is recommended that you build the released versions of these libraries
- and then configure <application>GPL Ghostscript</application> to link to
- them. This configuration has several steps.</para>
+ it is recommended that you install the released versions of these
+ libraries and then configure <application>GPL Ghostscript</application>
+ to link to them.</para>
- <para>Unless you intend to build <application>GPL
Ghostscript</application>
- without support for <literal>JPEG2000</literal> files, apply a patch to
- allow it to build against a current system-installed version of
- <application>JasPer</application>:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i
../ghostscript-&gs-version;-system_jasper-1.patch
-</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Remove the local copies of <application>expat</application>,
- <application>JasPer</application>, <application>lcms</application>,
- <application>libjpeg</application>, <application>libpng</application>,
- <application>libtiff</application>, and <application>zlib</application>:
+ <para>If you have installed these dependencies on your system, remove the
+ copies of <application>expat</application>,
+ <application>freetype</application>, <application>JasPer</application>,
+ <application>lcms</application>, <application>libjpeg</application>,
+ <application>libpng</application>, <application>libtiff</application>
+ and <application>zlib</application>:
</para>
-<screen><userinput>rm -rf expat jasper lcms jpeg libpng tiff zlib
-</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>rm -rf expat freetype jasper lcms jpeg libpng tiff
zlib</userinput></screen>
<para>Run the configure command:</para>
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-dynamic
--with-drivers=ALL,x11 --with-system-libtiff
--disable-compile-inits</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-dynamic
--with-system-libtiff</userinput></screen>
<para>To ensure the build is able to use the system versions of
<application>expat</application>, <application>freetype</application>, and
- <application>lcms</application> it is necessary to make some changes and an
+ <application>zlib</application> it is necessary to make some changes and an
addition to the <literal>Makefile</literal> before building the
package:</para>
-<screen><userinput>sed -i -e 's|SHARE_LCMS=0|SHARE_LCMS=1|' \
- -e 's|LCMSSRCDIR=lcms|LCMSSRCDIR=/usr|' \
- -e 's|=imdi|&\n\n# Use system expat library\n\nSHARE_EXPAT=1|' \
- -e 's|SHARE_FT=0|SHARE_FT=1|' Makefile &&
+<screen><userinput>sed -i '/^EXTRALIBS/s# -ldl# -lfreetype -lz#
+ /=imdi/aSHARE_EXPAT=1' Makefile &&
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>
+ <warning>
+ <para>If you have a multiprocessor computer and try to run make with
+ multiple jobs (eg, -j4) then the build may fail due to race conditions in
+ the <application>Ghostscript</application> build system.</para>
+ </warning>
- <screen><userinput>bin/gs -Ilib -dBATCH
examples/tiger.eps</userinput></screen>
+ <note>
+ <para>The shared library depends on <xref linkend="gtk2"/>. It is
+ only used in external programs like <xref linkend="imagemagick"/>.</para>
+ </note>
- <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
-
-<!-- for 9.00 docdir is only referenced by GS_DOCDIR which is itself not
referenced
- so the docs still go into /usr/share/ghostscript/9.00/
-<screen role="root"><userinput>make install
docdir=/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version; &&-->
-<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
-for INSTFILE in `ls doc`
-do
- <!--if [ ! -f /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;/$INSTFILE ];
then -->
- if [ ! -f /usr/share/ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc/$INSTFILE ]; then
- install -v -m644 doc/$INSTFILE \
- /usr/share/ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc
- <!--/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;-->
- fi
-done &&
-
-<!--install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;/figures
&&-->
-install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc/figures &&
-install -v -m644 doc/figures/* \
- /usr/share/ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc/figures &&
- <!--/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;/figures-->
-ln -sv ../ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;
-</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>To install the shared library
+ <para>To compile the shared library
<filename class='libraryfile'>libgs.so</filename>, run the
following additional command as an unprivileged user:</para>
<screen><userinput>make so</userinput></screen>
- <para>And again as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
+ <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 -dBATCH
examples/tiger.eps</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
-<screen role="root"><userinput>make soinstall
docdir=/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version; &&
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>If you want the shared library too:</para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make soinstall &&
install -v -m644 base/*.h /usr/include/ghostscript &&
ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps</userinput></screen>
- <note>
- <para>The shared library depends on <xref linkend="gtk2"/>. It is
- only used in external programs like <!-- <xref linkend="gsview"/> and -->
- <xref linkend="imagemagick"/>.</para>
- </note>
+ <para>Now install the documentation:</para>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>cp -rf doc /usr/share/ghostscript/&gs-version;
&&
+ln -sv ../ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc
/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;</userinput></screen>
+
<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
- <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:<systemitem
- class="groupname">root</systemitem>. Substitute
+ <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 --no-same-owner</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xvf
../<replaceable><font-tarball></replaceable> -C /usr/share/ghostscript
--no-same-owner</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
- <para><command>--with-drivers=ALL,x11</command>: This parameter adds the
+ <!-- works fine on 32 bit systems for me - Andrew Benton
+ <para><command>with-drivers=ALL,x11</command>: This parameter adds the
<literal>x11</literal> output device to the default
(<literal>ALL</literal>)
selection so that the test to render the tiger will work on 32-bit systems
(this does no harm on the <literal>x86_64</literal> architecture, although
- it is not required there).</para>
- <para><command>--disable-compile-inits</command>: This parameter is
intended
- to avoid compiling initialization files into the executables. It is used
here
- to simplify building agaisnt the system version of
- <application>zlib</application>.</para>
- <para><option>--without-jasper</option>: If you know you do not wish to
print
- any <literal>JPEG2000</literal> files, this switch (and removing the
- <filename class="directory">jasper/</filename> source) will achieve
this.</para>
+ it is not required there).</para> -->
+
+ <!-- The build fails for me with this option with ghostscript-9.04 and
+ zlib-1.2.5 - Andrew Benton
+ <para><command>disable-compile-inits</command>: This parameter is intended
+ to avoid compiling initialization files into the executables. It is used
+ here to simplify building against the system version of
+ <application>zlib</application>.</para> -->
+
+ <para><option>--without-jasper</option>: If you know you do not wish to
+ print any <literal>JPEG2000</literal> files, this switch (and removing the
+ <filename class="directory">jasper</filename> folder in the source) will
+ disable JPEG2000 support in <application>Ghostscript</application>.</para>
+
<para><option>--without-jbig2dec</option>: The <literal>JBIG2</literal>
- decompression code (used for some faxes) can be disabled by using this
switch
- and removing the <filename class="directory">jbig2dec/</filename>
source.</para>
- <para><command>install ...</command>: Some packages
+ decompression code (used for some faxes) can be disabled by using this
+ switch and removing the <filename class="directory">jbig2dec/</filename>
+ source.</para>
+
+ <para><command>install -v -m644 base/*.h...</command>: Some packages
(<application>ImageMagick</application> is one) need the
<application>Ghostscript</application> interface headers in place to link
to the shared library. These commands install the headers.</para>
- <para><command>ln -sv ...
/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;</command>: This puts
- the documentation where it is expected to be found.</para>
+ <para><command>ln -sv ...
/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;</command>:
+ This puts a symbolic link to the documentation where it is expected to be
+ found.</para>
- <para><command>ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps</command>: Some
- packages expect to find the interface headers in an alternate
- location.</para>
+ <para><command>ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps</command>: Some
packages
+ expect to find the interface headers in an alternate location.</para>
</sect2>
@@ -300,14 +270,14 @@
<seglistitem>
<seg>bdftops, dumphint, dvipdf, eps2eps, fixmswrd.pl, font2c, gs, gsbj,
- gsc (from soinstall), gsdj, gsdj500, gslj, gslp, gsnd, gsx (from
soinstall),
- lprsetup.sh, pdf2dsc, pdf2ps, pdfopt,
+ gsc (from soinstall), gsdj, gsdj500, gslj, gslp, gsnd, gsx
+ (from soinstall), lprsetup.sh, pdf2dsc, pdf2ps, pdfopt,
pf2afm, pfbtopfa, printafm, ps2ascii, ps2epsi, ps2pdf, ps2pdf12,
ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14, ps2pdfwr, ps2ps, ps2ps2, pv.sh, unix-lpr.sh, and
wftopfa</seg>
<seg>libgs.so </seg>
- <seg>/usr/include/ghostscript, /usr/lib/ghostscript,
/usr/share/ghostscript,
- <!--and /usr/share/doc/ghostscript</seg>-->
+ <seg>/usr/include/ghostscript, /usr/lib/ghostscript,
+ /usr/share/ghostscript,
and /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
@@ -320,8 +290,8 @@
<varlistentry id="gplgs-prog">
<term><command>gs</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>is an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript(tm) and
Portable Document Format
- (PDF).</para>
+ <para>is an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript(tm) and
Portable
+ Document Format (PDF).</para>
<indexterm zone="gs gplgs-prog">
<primary sortas="b-gs">gs</primary>
</indexterm>
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