[gs-devel] Re: Merger of ESP and GPL GhostScript: (Nearly) Completed

[Till Kamppeter]

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Friday 27 April 2007, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> See
>> http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/esp-gpl-ghostscript-merge/
>> with all files and a README with instructions. Please try it out.
> 
> The patches look good to me. I've run into 2 issues so far: autogen.sh in the 
> ijs subdir fails to detect automake versions > 1.6 (using 1.10 here), but 
> they work perfectly once detected. The attached patch should fix it.
>

This problem is not caused by the merger, it is a bug which was probably 
there all the time. Thank you for the patch. will apply it later.

> Later in the build process, I get
> ./obj/../soobj/echogs -e .dev -w- -l-obj ./obj/../soobj/fapiu
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/objs/freetype214MT_D', needed by 
> `obj/../soobj/fapif1.dev'.  Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ark/BUILD/gs'
> 
> I didn't have the time to check what's going on there yet, but "/objs/" looks 
> wrong, probably it's just a missing variable definition somewhere.
> 

This looks like that upstream GS developers have started to introduce 
Freetype support but missed to add a check to configure.ac.

Try this patch

http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/esp-gpl-ghostscript-merge/ghostscript-8.57-configure-freetype-check.patch

It simply adds the Freetype check from ESP GhostScript.

Thank you very much for your report.

    Till