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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: The current ghostscript rpms for FC1 lack the shared libraries (libgs.so.7). According to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88175 this bug had been fixed and "CLOSED RAWHIDE" with version 7.07-18. Unfortunately this bug prevents Fedora Extras to provide gsview rpms for FC1 (https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1940). I'd therefore ask you to release an update to ghostscript for FC1. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ghostscript-7.07-15.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Additional info:
Please test the update. Does it work for you? http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-August/msg00173.html
Thanks a lot for your response! Great! Some remarks: Some (non-critical) nits in your rpm-spec: 1. You are invoking autoconf, but do not BuildRequires it. This breaks building the package in mach-chroots. I guess you probably have autoconf in your default buildsystem configuration, so this probably doesn't have any impact for you. [I don't know what is cause for running autoconf at the place it currently is run (the ijs-patch alone does not require running autoconf) but I would recommend to use a pregenerated patch instead of running autoconf.] 2. /usr/lib/libgs.so should probably be moved to ghostscript-devel (currently in ghostscript). 3. The ghostscript package should probably be added (It now contains shared libs) %post -p /sbin/ldconfig %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig 4. IMO, ghostscript-devel should Require: ghostscript = %{version}-%{release} unless you're 100% shure, that all ghostscript-devel releases are compatible to ghostscript = %{version} packages BTW: these issues also apply to FC2's ghostscript (7.07-25)
Thanks for the feedback. 1: this is just what was already shipped -- the only change was to change a '0' to a '1'. 2: if you do that gs won't run :-) It dlopen()s it 3: not sure if this is valid -- they are shared libs, but are dlopened() and so don't need the versioned symlinks 4: again, this is like point 1 The points I most need feedback on are: a) Does gsview work? b) Does ghostscript work?
2: sigh, gsview also dlopens "libgs.so" :( [IMO this is a design flaw; it breaks shared library versioning and introduces DLL-hell to Linux :( I already patched one of my rpms to dlopen versioned libraries cf. https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1786] 3: Isn't it required in case packages actually link against the shared libs? (At the moment there definitely are none). a) As far gs seems to be concerned, AFAICT: yes. [Displaying pages seascape/upside-down doesn't seem to work, but I am not sure if ghostscript is the culprit] b) I haven't noticed any apparent breakdown yet.
I've updated the package for Fedora development in CVS, but I don't think it's worth re-spinning this update for /sbin/ldconfig and stricter requires:. Thanks for the feedback!