From: hlu@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: df wanted / gs binaries Date: 2 Jul 1992 06:30:07 GMT
In article <Bqqw1C.BoI@news.cso.uiuc.edu> thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) writes:
>
>>>Also, is there a compiled version of gs (GhostScript) for Linux?
>
>>Not that I'm aware of, but the source is available on prep.ai.mit.edu,
>>and should compile reasonably cleanly. (I was able to compile gs 2.4
>>under an older compiler and it went fine, as I remember.)
>
>I was able to compile it with 2.11c, using the unix-gcc Makefile and
>the "-DSYSV -D__SVR3" flags. No other changes needed.
>
>Please note that the "-D__SVR3" flag is necessary, because it causes
>gs not to use the st_blocks thing -- which, as Jim says, is defined
>but not implemented.
>
It's long time since I built gs. Anyway, I suspect you can just use
"-D__SVR3" or "-D__SVR3 -D_POSIX_SOURCE". BTW, what does "-DSYSV" do in
gs? for bstrings?
H.J.