Re: Missing files in distribution
Chris Liddell <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel |
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On 15/11/15 09:11, Chris Liddell wrote: > 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..... In fact, the macos-fw.mak file *is* missing from recent recent releases (I'm not sure exactly since when). I removed it because it no longer worked. Nevertheless, as I said, if there is a compelling reason to support it, in addition to the shared library, I can look into doing as, as time permits. Chris _______________________________________________ gs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gs-devel