[bug-gs] 8.12: a number of minor issues

[Ray Johnston]

Mouse,

A single bug report with all of the issues is fine since if we want
to open up separate bugs in the bugs.ghostscript.com bugzilla system,
we can easily.

If it is convenient to send the documentation issues separately from
the build issues, that's slightly preferable, but currently the
documentation and build issues both end up with the same Artifex
engineer, Ralph Giles, although others pitch in occasionally.

Regards,
Ray Johhstson
Director of Engineering
Artifex Software Inc.
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der Mouse wrote:
> I found what looks to me like a bug with ghostscript 6.0.  Before
> reporting it, I went to check for a newer version and found 8.12, which
> I picked up and installed.
> 
> The install went relatively smoothly, mostly.  I ran into a snag with
> genarch, got large numbers of compiler warnings, and found a number of
> minor glitches in the doc files, but it was otherwise fine.
> 
> The main reason I'm sending this rather than a filled-out bug report
> form is that it's not clear whether it's better to send multiple
> reports, one for each minor issue, or one omnibus report that covers
> them all.  I can see arguments either way - or even for a split, such
> as one report for all the doc file items and others individually for
> the others.
> 
> Most briefly, the problems, in case they affect the answer:
> 
> - The genarch issue is that clock_t is unsigned and t_eps ended up with
>   a very large value - the negative of some small value, maybe -1 (I
>   didn't look closely enough to be sure).  Slightly more defensive code
>   dealt with this.
> 
> - There are several small glitches in the doc files, ranging from typos
>   to minor factual errors to things that aren't mentioned that I think
>   maybe should be.
> 
> - One thing which the building document seems to imply should work
>   didn't work for me (trying to turn on rasterop support).
> 
> - NetBSD's make(1) has a bug (well, it's deliberate, so I suppose it
>   should properly be called a misfeature, even though it's misleadingly
>   undocumented) which makes it significantly harder to work with
>   ghostscript; it might be good to warn about it in an OS-specific
>   section of the Make document.
> 
> The problem I thought I saw with 6.0 is not present in 8.12, but upon
> looking more closely I'm not entirely convinced it was present in 6.0.
> 
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