ghostscript8 fails to build

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:38:25PM +0000, LtCdData wrote:
> Hi
> I am having problems building ghostscript8-8.63 from ports with the below 
> error<snip>
> : multiple definition of `gs_shared_init'
> ./obj/../soobj/gdevl256.o(.text+0x780): first defined here
> gmake[1]: *** [bin/../sobin/libgs.so.8.63] Error 1
> </snip>
> After some googling about it seems this is an old issue with  a conflict 
> between lvga256 and vgalib. The fix seems to be to build it without SVGAlib,  
> but so far I have failed to get it to do. Ill assume I am doing something 
> wrong here as I am not a coder. Any help with how to actually get 
> ghostscript8 to build without SVGAlib would be much appreciated 

As root, go to the port directory with 'cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8'. 
Type 'make config' and disable the two SVGA lib drivers. You can use the
PageUp and PageDown keys to scroll through the list of drivers. Disable
anything you don't need. Then issue the commands 'make clean', and 'make
install clean' to build and install the software.

Roland
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