Bug 114276 - Dynamically linked ghostscript is actually smaller
Summary: Dynamically linked ghostscript is actually smaller
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ghostscript
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL: http://www.camk.edu.pl/~chris/ghost-d...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-01-26 07:46 UTC by Krzysio (Chris) Leszczynski
Modified: 2007-04-18 17:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-01-28 12:25:02 UTC
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Description Krzysio (Chris) Leszczynski 2004-01-26 07:46:23 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031030

Description of problem:
This not a bug.

I just read in the ghostscript.spec that
you don't ship /usr/lib/libgs because it is big (??) and nobody
uses it.  Well... none it's true. Actually stripped version of
libgs is smaller than statically linked ghostscript and yes,
many tools actually use libgs.  One of it is ps viewer from TeX-Live
distribution.

I have added a patch to ghostscript.spec.  It results in 3.5MB
libgs and 4kB /usr/bin/gs

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ghostscript-7.05

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
  

Additional info:
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2004-01-28 12:25:02 UTC 
Thanks, fixed in CVS.  Will show up in next build after 7.07-18.
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