Re: Ghostscript/GhostPDL 9.27 Release Candidate 1

Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:53:59 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Quoting Chris Liddell (2019-03-28 10:51:32)
> On 28/03/2019 01:15, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Chris Liddell (2019-03-27 13:41:34)
> >> I have created archives (and Ghostscript Windows installers) for 
> >> the first public release candidates for Ghostscript and GhostPDL 
> >> 9.27, and they are available here:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/9.27rc1

[...]

> > Unfortunately Debian builds of the new prerelease segfaults when 
> > simply executing "gs --version".

[...]

> It's a change in the front end API, and we missed it for some of the 
> callers of that API:
> 
> https://tinyurl.com/y4uwbowc
> 
> is a commit that fixes the specific problem, and removes the reliance on
> the compiler initialising globals in other places (just makes it clearer
> what's required).

Thanks for the quick bugfix.  With that patch applied the prerelease 
succesfully builds in Debian.


 - Jonas

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