[gs-devel] Re: Merger of ESP and GPL GhostScript: Completed driver part

[Till Kamppeter]

Michael Sweet wrote:
> Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have now completed the driver part of the merger by updating the 
>> build system to add all necessary checks for the drivers (especially 
>> for CUPS Raster and OpenPrinting Vector) and to make selection of 
>> drivers to be built in much easier. Especially one can also build a 
>> GhostScript with none of the extra drivers from the contrib/ directory 
>> by supplying the option "--disable-contrib" to "./confugure".
>>
>> Other additional options are "--with-drivers" to select drivers and 
>> "--with-fontpath" to easily add the system's font locations (call the 
>> system's GhostScript with "gs -h" and add the paths shown in the end 
>> of the output),
>>
>> "./configure" also auto-detects whether the X drivers can be modularized.
>>
>> For correct building of the CUPS filters the definition of the version 
>> number was moved from src/version.mak to ./configure (or 
>> src/configure.ac).
>>
>> The build rules for Omni I have removed from src/contrib.mak, as 
>> gdevomni.c is present in the contrib/ directory. So its build rules 
>> belong into contrib/contrib.mak.
>>
>> To get from current SVN to the driver-enhanced GhostScript, do in an 
>> empty directory:
>>
>> svn co svn+ssh://svn.ghostscript.com/svn/ghostscript/trunk/gs
>> wget 
>> http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/esp-gpl-ghostscript-merge/ghostscript-8.57-bjc880j-lips2p-lips4-lips4v.patch 
>>
>> wget 
>> http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/esp-gpl-ghostscript-merge/ghostscript-8.57-build-system.patch 
>>
>> wget 
>> http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/esp-gpl-ghostscript-merge/ghostscript-8.57-contrib-drivers.tar.gz 
>>
>> wget 
>> http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/esp-gpl-ghostscript-merge/ghostscript-8.57-ljet4pjl-lj4dithp-dj505j-picty180.patch 
>>
>> wget 
>> http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/esp-gpl-ghostscript-merge/ghostscript-8.57-x11-svga-as-shared-library.patch 
>>
>> cd gs
>> tar -xvzf ../ghostscript-8.57-contrib-drivers.tar.gz
>> patch -p1 < ../ghostscript-8.57-x11-svga-as-shared-library.patch
>> patch -p1 < ../ghostscript-8.57-ljet4pjl-lj4dithp-dj505j-picty180.patch
>> patch -p1 < ../ghostscript-8.57-bjc880j-lips2p-lips4-lips4v.patch
>> patch -p1 < ../ghostscript-8.57-build-system.patch
>> ./autogen.sh --help
>> ./configure --enable-dynamic --disable-compile-inits --with-driver=ALL 
>> --with-fontpath=/var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts:/usr/share/cups/fonts:/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts:/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts:/usr/share/fonts 
>>
>> make
>> sudo make install
>> gs -h
>>
>> The "./configure" command line is an example for Ubuntu Feisty. It 
>> makes all drivers being built and the "--with-fontpath=..." is adapted 
>> to Ubuntu Feisty. Adapt it to your distro.
>>
>> Run "./configure --help" for the complete set of options. Run "make 
>> distclean" before rebuilding with other "./configure" options.
>>
>> Please everyone test this version. All changes concern the output 
>> devices and so each change by itself should not break more than some 
>> output devices. The core PostScript/PDF interpreter is completely 
>> unchanged in this stage of the merger.
>>
>> Now we can easily replace ESP GhostScript without loss of any printer 
>> being supported.
>>
>> Please tell me whether I can start to upload this into the subversion 
>> repositories of GPL GhostScript.
>>
>> Next step will be to add the CUPS extensions into the lib/*.ps files.
>>
>> Mike, what is still missing on the merger?
> 
> Once you have the lib/*.ps changes in, we should have everything
> needed.
> 

Mike, another missing feature are your improvements on the 
pxlmono/pxlcolor drivers. Can you also here tell what you have changed 
exactly, or provide a patch for current GPL GS SVN or directly upload 
into the SVN? Thank you.

    Till