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Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> writes:

> Ghostscript8 compiled and installed ok.  It was probably the rmconfig
> that fixed it.  I had unset a lot of options that were of no value to
> me.  Maybe one or more of them are not really optional.

Or more likely, optional but other options depend on them.

> Concerning the copy & paste, root is not running X so there is no copy
> and paste.  I tried redirecting error output from make with
> 2>$HOME/make_error but make sees the redirection as an instruction it
> does not know how to do.

Sounds like you're using a csh-style shell.  Redirection is one of the
things they do really badly.  There are other options, like script(1) in
the base system, or sysutils/screen in ports.