ghostscript-afpl vs ghostscript-gnu

[Erik Trulsson]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 10:54:26PM -0500, Paul Murphy wrote:
>  I am trying to install print/cups-pstoraster and came across this
> difficulty:
> 
> RUN_DEPENDS=
> ${LOCALBASE}/share/ghostscript/${PORTVERSION}/lib/gs_init.ps:${PORTSDIR
> }/print/ghostscript-gnu
> 
>  I already have print/ghostscript-afpl installed which CONFLICTS with
> print/ghostscript-gnu. I worked around the problem with a soft-link in
> /usr/local/share/ghostscript (ln -s 8.13 7.07).
> 
>  Can print/cups-pstoraster be made to test which version of ghostscript
> is installed (if any), perhaps by replacing ${PORTVERSION} with '*'?
> 

There is an even better solution to this (you are not the first person
to run into this problem.)
Replace the above dependency line with "USE_GHOSTSCRIPT_RUN=yes", and
then set WITH_GHOSTSCRIPT_AFPL=yes to use ghostscript-afpl instead of
ghostscript-gnu (the default.)
See the print/transfig port for an example on how to do this.

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Erik Trulsson
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