Building Ghostscript from source on FreeBSD

[Brent Bloxam]

Brent Bloxam wrote:
> I'm having trouble building Ghostscript 8.70 from source on FreeBSD 7.0. 
> I cannot use the version in the ports tree for various reasons. I've 
> looked at the .mak patches in ./files/ for the ports tree however to try 
> to suss out any differences but they elude me.
> 
> My configure line:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/imagemagick-6.5.6 --disable-cups 
> --disable-gtk --disable-cairo --disable-fontconfig --without-libpaper 
> --without-pdftoraster --without-ijs --without-jbig2dec --without-jasper 
> --without-omni --without-x --with-drivers=BMP,FAX,JPEG,PNG,PS,TIFF
> 
> The error I receive building:
> 
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Wmissing-declarations 
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing 
> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fno-builtin -fno-common -DHAVE_STDINT_H 
> -DGX_COLOR_INDEX_TYPE="unsigned long long" -I./base -o ./obj/genconf 
> ./base/genconf.c
> gcc: ./base/genconf.c: No such file or directory
> gcc: No input files specified
> 
> ./base/genconf.c exists. Executing the gcc command on its own is 
> successful, yet the build can't continue even with ./obj/genconf 
> existing. `make -d A` reaches the failure with:
> 
> Examining ./base/stdpn.h...modified 18:23:38 Jun 05, 2007...up-to-date.
> Examining ./obj/genconf...non-existent...modified before source 
> (/home/build/ghostscript-8.70/./base/genconf.c)...out-of-date.
> ./obj/genconf:> = /home/build/ghostscript-8.70/./base/genconf.c
> ./obj/genconf:? = /home/build/ghostscript-8.70/./base/genconf.c
> ./obj/genconf:> = /home/build/ghostscript-8.70/./base/genconf.c 
> /home/build/ghostscript-8.70/./base/stdpre.h
> ./obj/genconf:? = /home/build/ghostscript-8.70/./base/genconf.c 
> /home/build/ghostscript-8.70/./base/stdpre.h
> ./obj/genconf:> = /home/build/ghostscript-8.70/./base/genconf.c 
> /home/build/ghostscript-8.70/./base/stdpre.h 
> /home/build/ghostscript-8.70/./base/stdpn.h
> ./obj/genconf:? = /home/build/ghostscript-8.70/./base/genconf.c 
> /home/build/ghostscript-8.70/./base/stdpre.h 
> /home/build/ghostscript-8.70/./base/stdpn.h
> cc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Wmissing-declarations 
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing 
> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fno-builtin -fno-common -DHAVE_STDINT_H 
> -DGX_COLOR_INDEX_TYPE="unsigned long long" -I./base -o ./obj/genconf 
> ./base/genconf.c
> cc: ./base/genconf.c: No such file or directory
> cc: No input files specified
> 
> Why is it that it believes ./obj/genconf is nonexistent, and then 
> proceeds to fail while it has no problems with anything else up to that 
> point?

Solved. Looks like building Ghostscript explicitly requires gmake