ghostscript update

[Paul Repacholi]

misiek at dione.ids.pl writes:

> Hi. Is update of ESP Ghostscript to GNU Ghostscript 8.01 planned?
> http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2004-February/002909.html

> While reading
> http://www.cups.org/ghostscript.php

> ,,With the increasing number of Linux distributions shipping, or
> considering shipping CUPS as their standard printing system, we have
> had many requests to provide patches to the standard GNU Ghostscript
> source distribution so that they can ship a single version of
> Ghostscript.''

> It seems that patches would be better than providing whole
> ghostscript - easier to update for new versions of gnu ghostscripts.

I tried to build gs 8.11 with the patch and files in the espgs kit.
On linking there are a load of unresolved calls for cupsRasterOpen,
cupsRaster CLose, and others. Where are these routines? I can't find
them in cups, or espgs anywhere.

Also, gs 8.14 and 8.30 are now out there. And another side issue,
reading the blurb on the cups home page implies to me that gs is not
needed to print ps on a ps printer. So then the printing jobs fail,
though a raw print will work. Worse, if you have a standard non-cups
gs, the fialure does not give a clear error message as to what is
wrong. (Welcome to unix...)

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