Hello I'm reaching out to see if anyone can offer some help with installing gv on a vintage computer. What I am trying to do is for sure not supported but maybe someone can help anyway?
I have an interest in vintage HP workstations and am using an HP 9000 series model 385 (M68k processor, 33 MHz, 80 Mb RAM) running HP-UC vs 9.10. It's old and slow but ... well I'm interested in conservation and reconstruction of relevant software. I have gcc (version 2.95.3) and various gnu tools for building packages. On such an old machine, resources are limited and it is usually necessary to go for older releases. Ghostscript (version 7.07b) compiled and works well. For gv, I have gone back to version 3.6.1 because my system lacks c library routines for handling 64-bit variables and I found that several such routines (e.g. strtoll, strtoull and strtold) are used in the most recent version of gv. Anyway, gv-3.6.1 compiles fine (it needed a few tiny tweaks to move declarations ahead of executable code and to add the missing getopt_long function). Unfortunately, it runs to only a very limited extent: it's OK with switches such as -help, --usage or -version but it fails with a core dump when called with a ps file (one that displays OK using gs). I have more info. if there is anyone who might be able to offer some advice. Kind regards Martin Trusler
