From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 19:11:58 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 61D6D1065679 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:11:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ltcddats@nildram.co.uk) Received: from mk-outboundfilter-6-a-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-outboundfilter-6-a-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.114.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CAA8FC26 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:11:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ltcddats@nildram.co.uk) X-Trace: 70641678/mk-outboundfilter-6.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$F2S-NILDRAM-ACCEPTED/f2s-nildram-customers/62.3.226.102/None/ltcddats@nildram.co.uk X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 62.3.226.102 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: ltcddats@nildram.co.uk X-MUA: KMail/1.9.10 X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAP5HfEk+A+Jm/2dsb2JhbADKa4VL X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,322,1231113600"; d="scan'208";a="70641678" X-IP-Direction: IN Received: from davids-website.com (HELO www.davids-website.com) ([62.3.226.102]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 25 Jan 2009 19:11:55 +0000 Received: from farscape.davids-website.com (farscape.davids-website.com [10.0.0.1]) by www.davids-website.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18611C78E for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:11:52 +0000 (GMT) From: LtCdData Organization: Microsoft-sux To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:11:55 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200901251438.25261.ltcddats@nildram.co.uk> <20090125154719.GA80226@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090125154719.GA80226@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-3" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901251911.55650.ltcddats@nildram.co.uk> Subject: Re: ghostscript8 fails to build- cheerz 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: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:11:59 -0000 On Sunday 25 January 2009, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:38:25PM +0000, LtCdData wrote: > > Hi > > I am having problems building ghostscript8-8.63 from ports with the below > > error > > > > : multiple definition of `gs_shared_init' > > > > ./obj/../soobj/gdevl256.o(.text+0x780): first defined here > > gmake[1]: *** [bin/../sobin/libgs.so.8.63] Error 1 > > > > After some googling about it seems this is an old issue with a conflict > > between lvga256 and vgalib. The fix seems to be to build it without > > SVGAlib, but so far I have failed to get it to do. Ill assume I am doing > > something wrong here as I am not a coder. Any help with how to actually > > get ghostscript8 to build without SVGAlib would be much appreciated > > As root, go to the port directory with 'cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8'. > Type 'make config' and disable the two SVGA lib drivers. You can use the > PageUp and PageDown keys to scroll through the list of drivers. Disable > anything you don't need. Then issue the commands 'make clean', and 'make > install clean' to build and install the software. > > Roland worked a charm thanks :-)