From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jul 23 00:30:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA22785 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 00:30:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA22780 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 00:30:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) pid 556 for ports@freebsd.org; id JAA00556; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:21:30 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche.bowtie.nl (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA23509 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:18:14 +0200 Message-Id: <199607230718.JAA23509@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: print/gs4 In-reply-to: andreas's message of Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:44:00 +0200. Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:18:13 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > cd print/gs4 > > make install > > does: > > install -c -m 755 gs /usr/local/bin/gs > > So our GNU version of gs gets trampled by the commercial Aladdin gs, > > I'd rather expected it to be installed as bin/gs4.... > > Ok, let's discuss that now, but ... I was aware of this ... > > The reason for me not to change the default path and program name > (/usr/local/bin/gs) was, that all ghostscript ports in the past > did it the same way and I didn't want to break something ... > > For example ghostview looks for /usr/local/bin/gs and _not_ gs4 > or whatelse ... I think, that the ordinary ghostscript user doesn't > look or differentiate between different copyright (GNU / Aladdin) > I think the user only wants the latest and greatest version. > If you want to have this port replace the GNU gs as the latest and the greatest, I would like to mention that at least version 3.51 did not run completely the same as GNU gs, I think the margins where a bit different and more importantly it broke my faxsystem (mgetty+sendfax) since the g3 files it generates break on a lot of faxmachines. I don't know if this is fixed now, but it was a clear reason for me to switch back to GNU gs. Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ----------------------------------------------------