Bug 114276 – Dynamically linked ghostscript is actually smaller

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Bug 114276 - Dynamically linked ghostscript is actually smaller

Summary:	Dynamically linked ghostscript is actually smaller

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	ghostscript (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	9
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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URL:	http://www.camk.edu.pl/~chris/ghost-d...
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2004-01-26 02:46 EST by Krzysio (Chris) Leszczynski
Modified:	2007-04-18 13:02 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-01-28 07:25:02 EST
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Description Krzysio (Chris) Leszczynski 2004-01-26 02:46:23 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
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

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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2004-01-28 07:25:02 EST

Thanks, fixed in CVS.  Will show up in next build after 7.07-18.

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