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Date:      Sun, 12 Oct 1997 19:42:28 +0930
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Ghostscript 5 port is broken
Message-ID:  <199710121012.TAA00902@word.smith.net.au>

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(I figure Andreas is reading this...)

The Ghostscript 5 port is broken, as follows:

 - It requires the jpeg6 and png ports for building, but fails to
   detect that they are already installed.  Instead, it depends on 
   the file /nonexistent, ie. it *always* extracts, builds and installs
   both these ports.  This will fail if they have already been
   installed.

 - It attempts to execute scripts/configure, which is not executable.
   Instead, the script should be fed to sh.  (This may be a generic
   ports infrastructure thing.)

I hope these complaints are useful.

mike







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