Re: Building on Windows 7 64-bit.

Chris Liddell <[email protected]> Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:46:19 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel,gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 08/04/14 15:27, Didier Link wrote:
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> Le 08/04/2014 15:58, Bob Eby a =E9crit :
>> Hi Everyone,
>
> Hi Bob,
>
>>
>> I've been testing with AGPL Ghostscript and thought I'd give the GNU GPL
>> version a try.  Unfortunately I'm having trouble building verison 9.06
>> successfully on Windows 7 64-bit.
>
> Why do you use an old version of AGPL Ghostscript, the last one is 9.14 ?
>
>>
>> I notice a change in the ChangeLog from 2007:
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>> 2007-05-08 Didier Link <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>      * src/version.mak: removed because is functionnalities was transfer=
ed
>>
>> And yet many files (particularly windows mak files) seem to be riddled
>> with references to it.
>
> I have introduced the content of version.mak in the configure script
> directly and tested the GNU plateform only for compiling the GNU
> version. I've certainly broken the others plateforms by not removing the
> "include version.mak" from all others mak files. If you find the good
> line in the mak file for your build and simply remove the include maybe
> you're lucky and the build can continue and finish ? ;)

I can't help but feel that's a pointless change, and guaranteed to break =

anything that doesn't use configure..... also seems like making extra =

work for yourself.

Chris