Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:31:21 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> To: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> Cc: "elhosots@gmail.com" <elhosots@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ghostscript x11 [8-stable] Message-ID: <4CC780E9.7020402@missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikGd8eATmAd38AMyg=zmJ2011sYiNb-mO7oEmj6@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTikGd8eATmAd38AMyg=zmJ2011sYiNb-mO7oEmj6@mail.gmail.com>
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grarpamp wrote: > An FYI regarding: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-October/222897.html > > This problem has existed for me for many months, if not more. Currently: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 110 1002 11407910 Oct 07 11:33 ghostscript8-8.71_6.tbz > 4a2328c262b08dc78938c66548117d27dc6a3586 ghostscript8-8.71_6.tbz > > running the command: gv t.ps > produces: > Unknown device: x11 > Unrecoverable error: undefined in .uninstallpagedevice > Operand stack: > defaultdevice My experience is that ghostscript isn't compiled with an x11 device in the following circumstances: I compile it in a jail, with BATCH=yes set in /etc/make.conf. If I don't compile it in a jail, and set the options the regular way, then it does seem to compile with the x11 device present. Maybe this will give people a clue as to where the error is. Maybe a bug in the default setting of options in the ports system?
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