Re: Ghostrscript/GhostPDL 9.16 Release Candidate 1

"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chris Liddell <[email protected]> reports today

>> ...
>> I have created archives for the first release candidates for Ghostscript 
>> and GhostPDL 9.16, and they are available here:
>> 
>> http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/.release_candidate/
>> ...

I have successfully installed it on Red Hat 6 GNU/Linux x86-64,
and three dozen more platforms will soon follow.  

However, in looking at the ghostpdl-9.16rc1/README.txt file, I find

>> ...
>> .... This will create four different
>> executables: main/obj/pcl6, a build of GhostPCL with support for
>> PCL5e, PCL5c, and PXL, language_switch/obj/pspcl6 a build of GhostPCL
>> with additional support for PostScript and PDF, xps/obj/gxps a build
>> with support for XPS and finally svg/obj/gsvg the SVG implementation.
>> ...

When I did the build, it created main/obj/pcl6 and xps/obj/gxps, but
the other two were not made.  

The "make install" target only installs the pcl6 executable, which is
also at variance with the README.txt file.

Are these minor glitches in the Makefile(s), or a case of
documentation not matching the code?  There are no executables named
gsvg or pspcl6 in the completed-build tree.

Finally, I noted some spelling errors:

	ghostpdl-9.16rc1/README.txt:
		implemenation	->	implementation


	ghostscript-9.16rc1/doc/{Details8.htm,History8.htm} [several instances]
		recieved	->	received

The advent of a new release is a good time to fix spelling errors and
other typos in documentation.

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