Bug 88175
| Summary: | Include ghostscript shared library | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Rex Dieter <rdieter> |
| Component: | ghostscript | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | CC: | gsview, jgiglio, jrb, nphilipp |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 7.07-18 | Doc Type: | Enhancement |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-01-20 16:34:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 113951 | ||
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Description
Rex Dieter
2003-04-07 12:16:11 UTC
At *least* change the
Obsoletes: ghostscript-gtk
to
Obsoletes: ghostscript-gtk < %{version}-%{release}
so that you can have the option of putting it back later.
It can be used in ImageMagick? Yep, ImageMagick can link to it and call it this way (faster) instead of using the external gs binary for any eps/ps conversions. jrb: let me know if you want to do this. Sounds a good idea actually. References: http://studio.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-developers/2002-April/000495.html and http://studio.imagemagick.org/www/install.html (the paragraph starting with) Ghostscript (release 7.0 and later) may optionally install a library (libgs). If this library is installed, ImageMagick may be configured to use it. Schweet. I'll have to look into that for the next release. The spec file in CVS has %{build_libgs} parametrized, when you want to play.
Probably the shared object should go in a separate subpackage though.
I'd like to add my desire to have a rebuilt ghostscript package for RH9, which includes the libgs.so shared library. I have been trying to get GSView 4.4 to work and apparently it can't due to this missing library. Thanks And, FYI, in order to build ImageMagick w/ghostscript shared-lib support, it looks
for ghostscript's headers in
%{_includedir}/ps
by default. You'll either need to put a symlink
%{_includedir}/ps -> %{_includedir}/ghostscript
in the ghostscript pkg or patch ImageMagick to look in %{_includedir}/ghostscript
I would also like to see this included in a Red Hat 9 update package. I am also trying to get gsview to work with Red Hat 9, and now I have to recompile ghostscript, which is not trivial if I want to retain all the drivers that come with the RH ghostscript. Please include libgs.so. This is also required by GSview, another PostScript/PDF viewer. I'm confused, libgs.so was included with Red Hat 8.0, but not 9? Is this a mistake or a deliberate choice? If it's a mistake then maybe we should escalate this bug higher than enhancement level. Space was tight, and nothing we shipped used it. I think we'll have to reevaluate this next time round. Please, please, pretty please re-enable libgs.so support for Fedora Core (2). To reiterate, several software packages, including ImageMagick (and gsview) can take advantage of this feature. I'm building a 7.07-18 now which has this turned back on. Thank you! |