From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 20 13:20:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029101065676 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:20:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net) Received: from brightstar.bomgardner.net (brightstar.bomgardner.net [209.240.79.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71428FC15 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:20:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net) Received: from brightstar.bomgardner.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by brightstar.bomgardner.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341D0119C19; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:21:20 -0500 (CDT) From: "Gene" To: Mel Flynn , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:21:20 -0600 Message-Id: <20090320130542.M13925@brightstar.bomgardner.net> In-Reply-To: <200903200001.29208.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <20090319234730.M13060@brightstar.bomgardner.net> <200903200001.29208.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20060502 X-OriginatingIP: 192.168.0.2 (fbsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: Subject: Re: KDE4 port hangs, archives - handbook no help. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:20:59 -0000 On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:01:29 -0800, Mel Flynn wrote > On Thursday 19 March 2009 15:50:22 Gene wrote: > > Morning All: > > > > I've searched the archives and googled and generally applied what I found > > to no good effect. > > > > While installing the kde4 port, I got to libspectre. The libspectre port > > insists that I must have libgs to compile it. > > What pulls in this library? It doesn't for me. But I'm cups and > generally printer allergic. > > -- > Mel > _______________________________________________ Thanks for the reply, I'm also using cups in my kde 3 machine and plan to use it in kde 4. libgs is required, via libspectre, by evince, kdegraphics-4, kipi-plugins- kde4, the kde4 metaport, and so on. Actually, it was originally the "ghostscript-gpl" port that was called for, and I'm not sure what depended on it. I have discovered, however, that there was no port later than 8.60, and it appears to have dissappeared from the ports collection altogether (at least according to www.FreeBSD.org/ports, and portsnap didn't help either). So I manually installed the ghostscript- 8.63 port which supplied the necessary 8.63 libraries. For some reason, though, the libspectre script thinks it's seeing a version <= 8.60. Maybe I'll try uninstalling the ghostscript-gpl port and retrying libspectre. We'll see. IHN, Gene -- To everything there is a season, And a time to every purpose under heaven.