Ken Moffat wrote: > I built ghostscript-9.09 last night, and for the little use I now > have for it, it works ok [ 1. shared library for ImageMagick which > sort of works - 'display' treats any .ps file without a set > background as transparent, and shows the text over a tiled two-tone > grey window which is often hard to read. 2. it provides ps2pdf ] > > But I couldn't get the tiger to display. There is a problem with > the instructions in 9.07 (needs an extra -I to find gs_init.ps) and > after fixing that the command ran but no display window was created. > > After sleeping on it, I tested the book's commands in 9.07 on an > older system and after adding that -I got my tiger. Then I realised > that my own builds were still using --with-drivers=ALL,x11 which no > longer appears in the book. The strange thing is that we added > that selection - ALL should be the default and should include x11 - > to fix a similar no-tiger problem a few years ago. > > Summary - if you have an old script, compare the commands to what > is in the book for the version you are building! > > I decided to note this here so that the NSA^Wgoogle can index it > in case someone gets a similar problem in the future. > > ĸen > Interesting:
Since lfs-6.3, I have always built blfs fully on a clean lfs. I seem to recall that the tiger display worked at one time, but that might have been with lfs-4.0. (After 4.0, I decided that lfs wasn't worth the hassle. I was probably still using dial-up. After DSL, and increased dissatisfaction with other distributions, I decided to try lfs-blfs again beginning with 6.3.) The first time the tiger did not work, I did "make install" anyhow and ran the tiger test; and it worked. I had no gs problems. The next lfs-blfs build did the same thing. After the next one, I decided that it was not something I was doing. By this time, I was wondering why no one changed the instructions and no one commented in the support list. This, and a few other things, led to my concept of what is too trivial to add to the noise level of the list. Maybe it is time for a rethink, especially if not many people are building blfs from scratch (blfsfs). -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
