Re: Missing files in distribution

Chris Liddell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 15/11/15 03:34, Paul Wessel wrote:
> I am interested in building the OS X Framework for ghostscript under El Capitan.  However, your instructions of use base/macosx.mak as the top-level makefile and run “make framework” fails because key files are missing:
> 
> Makefile:425: base/devs.mak: No such file or directory
> Makefile:426: base/contrib.mak: No such file or directory
> …
> Makefile:430: base/macos-fw.mak: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target `base/macos-fw.mak'.  Stop.
> 
> Clearly, the macos-fw.mak would be very relevant here.  However, I am able to build the shared library.  Can the framework no longer be built?

The framework build has not worked in a long time (>5 years, AFAIK).
We've only had queries about the shared library since I took over
maintaining the builds, so that's where why time has been devoted.

TBH, I don't have any idea of what would be involved in getting
framework support up and building again.

FWIW, there aren't any files missing in the distro, the problem is that
on Unix-like systems we *only* support the configure based build, so
using base/macosx.mak as the top level makefile will not include any of
the settings that come from the configure script.

Also, there has been considerable reorganisation of the directory
structures, not all of which are reflected in the likes of base/macosx.mak.

If you have a genuine reason why you cannot use the shared library, and
*must* have the framework, I can look into what would be required to get
it working again - but I would have no solid way of testing it, so.....


Chris

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