[cups.general] gs for ps only.

[Helge Blischke]

v.sudeep at exgate.tek.com wrote:
> 
> Hi !
> 
> I want to build and use gs as a pure postscript file interpreter. It seems
> that the gs sources are closely interwoven with the jpeg, png etc libraries.
> And at the same time not losing the ability to include all the existing
> printer drivers.
> 
> We did try to exclude the jpeg , png make files from the makefile.in, but
> this seemed to result in errors while compiling some of the ghostscript core
> files.
> 
Be careful when tweaking the makefile(s). For example, the jpeg library
is needed to implement the DCTEncode and DCTDecode filters which are
part of
the PostScript core.

Helge

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