On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Matthias Kilian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm working on an update to ghostscript-9.02 (kind of emergency
> update, because ajacoutot@ wants to print some google maps, which
> currently causes ghostscript to segfault when called from pdf2ps).
>
> The good news: ghostscript-9.02 fixes the problem.
>
> The bad news: the pstoraster shell script is gone, now we have
> gstoraster, which is compiled and linked from gstoraster.c and
> depends on libcups. But ghostscript must not depend on cups (we had
> a circular dependency some years ago, and after a suggestion from
> bernd@ i changed ghostscript's cups driver to dlopen(3) libcups to
> break the circle).
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. I forgot which ports where involved in the circular dependencies
>   (it wasn't a direct cups <-> ghostscript tie); does anyone remember?
>
> 2. If I put the new gstoraster program into a subpackage, depending on
>   cups and ghostscript (-main), would this be a problem?

ughh... I really would like not to have to install cups on any of my
systems (realizing my vote usually doesn't count for much).

--patrick

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