Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > There is a ticket in Trac for an issue with GSView-4.7. > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/2175 > > The issue is valid. The new EPS Ghostscript internal versioning > scheme breaks GSView. I found that simply modifying src/gvcver.h > in the GSView sources fixes the issue. I simply substituted > 81502 for 999 for the "max version number" and compiled, and all > worked fine. > > Note I used the newest GSView (4.8). As I *must* use ESP Ghostscript > because CUPS is my print system, I cannot use AFPL Ghostscript (the > GSView package specifically says to use AFPL Ghostscript). Note > that I don't normally install GSView either, but want to address the > outstanding Trac ticket. > > Does anyone else use GSView? Does the fix I'm proposing seem to be > the right thing to do, or should we just drop ESP Ghostscript as > a dependency and render GSView available only to folks who install > AFPL Ghostscript? > > By the way, AFPL Ghostscript is changing to a GPL license and with > a new version (not realeased yet, but perhaps will), may break > GSView as well.
I use ESP Ghostscript-7.07.1 and Cups. I also have GSview-4.7 on my system but for some reason (probably inertia) am using xpdf. I'll take a look at the ticket and get back to you. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
