[gs-devel] gs on uClinux ARM producing blank output

[Ray Johnston]

James,

Actually I have Ghostscript built and running on a gumstix embedded linux
system (cross compiled from ubuntu linux on x86).

You should capture the stdout and stderr from ghostscript to see if there
are error messages being generated.

Note that 'waterfal.ps' uses fonts, so possibly gs isn't finding the fonts.
We usually try 'tiger.eps' first since it doesn't use any fonts.

BTW, I _am_ using COMPILE_INITS=1 (with 8.60) and it works fine, so you may
want to dig into the linking problems.

I wouldn't bother opening a bug as Igor suggested since I would probably
just close it as 'WORKSFORME' and we can't really support GPL users, but
if you do have stdout or stderr and send it, I'll be glad to see if I can
see what the problem is.

Regards,
Ray Johnston
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James Maki wrote:
> I have cross-compiled gs to run on uClinux. gs runs without producing 
> any error messages, but all pages of output to any DEVICE are blank. I 
> am not using COMPILE_INITS=1 because of linking problems. I have my 
> fonts and libs in the correct dir, and gs can find them correctly.
>  
> Running the following:
>  
>        cat waterfal.ps | gs -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -sOutputFile=file -
>  
> on my build system I get a file which is 47680 bytes and displays 
> fine. On my target system I get a file which is 8972 bytes and is 
> blank. It does not matter which device I use the output is always blank.
>  
> I have ran genarch on my target and produced a correct arch.h. I also 
> tried many different options from the Makefile to see if they had 
> anything to do with the problem (FPU_TYPE, BAND_LIST_STORAGE, 
> SHARED_ZLIB, ...).
>