[PATCH] math/asymptote-1.23 build broken on 6.2-Stable i386; also unsolved problems with AFPL Ghostscript integration

[Nicola Vitale]

Hi,

> [2007/3/27, bf <bf2006a at yahoo.com>]
> Building WITH_GSL=yes on my machine, the first hunk of
> the math/asymptote/files/patch-Makefile.in fails,
> probably because of the 1.23 source Makefile.in's line
> 9,

It has been fixed, thanks.

> Also, when generating the asymptote
> documentation/examples, there are a great number of
> errors of the form:
>
> ../asy -dir ../base -f png grid3xyz.asy
> AFPL Ghostscript 8.54: Error: Font Renderer Plugin (
> FreeType ) return code = -1

I don't think it depends on asymptote, perhaps on the external
renderer. We also get a similar error by typing for example the
following command at the ghostscript prompt:

GS> /Helvetica-Bold findfont 24 scalefont setfont

=>
Loading NimbusSanL-Bold font from
/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019004l.pfb... AFPL Ghostscript
8.54: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1
Can't render Font NimbusSanL-Bold with FAPI, will do with native GS renderer.
3578904 1717467 1770000 472540 1 done.
AFPL Ghostscript 8.54: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1
Can't render Font Helvetica-Bold with FAPI, will do with native GS renderer.

Unfortunately, I don't know a solution, sorry.

Thanks, ciao.
-- 
Nicola Vitale
nivit at FreeBSD.org