Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-29 Thread John B Brown
On 4/28/10 9:42 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Apr 28, 2010, at 19:37, John B Brown wrote: That's correct. MacPorts goes to great lengths to clear the environment before running, so that the environment is consistent. Exactly what in the environment must be cleared? If I set the

Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-29 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-04-29 02:37 , John B Brown wrote: Exactly what in the environment must be cleared? If I set the environment as I wish my computer to perform, what about MacPorts gives the right to remove the environment I approve for my computing? Your customized environment would influence

Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-28 Thread Rainer Müller
On 27.04.2010 22:08, John B Brown wrote: gcc only looks in /usr/local/include if you did not configure it with --prefix=/usr after editing the prefix entry in the configure file to reflect that as the install tree. MacPorts uses Apple supplied compilers from Xcode. Therefore we cannot

Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-28 Thread John B Brown
On 4/28/10 10:30 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: On 27.04.2010 22:08, John B Brown wrote: gcc only looks in /usr/local/include if you did not configure it with --prefix=/usr after editing the prefix entry in the configure file to reflect that as the install tree. MacPorts uses Apple supplied

Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 28, 2010, at 13:15, John B Brown wrote: On 4/28/10 10:30 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: On 27.04.2010 22:08, John B Brown wrote: gcc only looks in /usr/local/include if you did not configure it with --prefix=/usr after editing the prefix entry in the configure file to reflect that as the

Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-28 Thread John B Brown
On 4/28/10 3:17 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Apr 28, 2010, at 13:15, John B Brown wrote: On 4/28/10 10:30 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: On 27.04.2010 22:08, John B Brown wrote: gcc only looks in /usr/local/include if you did not configure it with --prefix=/usr after editing the prefix entry in

Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 28, 2010, at 19:37, John B Brown wrote: That's correct. MacPorts goes to great lengths to clear the environment before running, so that the environment is consistent. Exactly what in the environment must be cleared? If I set the environment as I wish my computer to perform,

Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-27 Thread Ryan Schmidt
uninstalling XFree86. I installed gv first; there was a huge amount of stuff that had to be automatically installed to get gv in. Yes, there is. Then I installed Xorg after neither gv nor ghostscript worked when first installed by port. gv and ghostscript depend on the parts of xorg

Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-27 Thread John B Brown
XFree86 from MacPorts.) Try uninstalling XFree86. I installed gv first; there was a huge amount of stuff that had to be automatically installed to get gv in. Yes, there is. Then I installed Xorg after neither gv nor ghostscript worked when first installed by port. gv

Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-27 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:13 AM, John B Brown wrote: Might you explain exactly what /usr/local has to do with /opt/local. Because all activity for port takes place under /opt/local what does having applications in /usr/local do that would interfere with port when a properly set up PATH is in

Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-27 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Apr 27, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:13 AM, John B Brown wrote: Might you explain exactly what /usr/local has to do with /opt/ local. Because all activity for port takes place under /opt/local what does having applications in /usr/local do that

Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-27 Thread Joshua Root
On 2010-4-28 02:15 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:13 AM, John B Brown wrote: Might you explain exactly what /usr/local has to do with /opt/local. Because all activity for port takes place under /opt/local what does having applications in /usr/local do that would

Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-27 Thread John B Brown
On 4/27/10 1:45 PM, Joshua Root wrote: On 2010-4-28 02:15 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:13 AM, John B Brown wrote: Might you explain exactly what /usr/local has to do with /opt/local. Because all activity for port takes place under /opt/local what does having

gv and ghostscript

2010-04-26 Thread John B Brown
Dear Folk, After installing the entire Xorg and XFree86 packages through macports I installed ghostscript and gv. Neither of them do anything except sit there at the command prompt doing nothing. A control-C will stop the wait and return the prompt. Trying to 'see' what is happening by using

Re: gv and ghostscript

2010-04-26 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 26, 2010, at 19:25, John B Brown wrote: After installing the entire Xorg and XFree86 packages through macports I installed ghostscript and gv. Neither of them do anything except sit there at the command prompt doing nothing. A control-C will stop the wait and return