[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44186] print command gives incorrect postscript file

[Dan Sebald]

Follow-up Comment #58, bug #44186 (project octave):

ghostscript developers have updated their repository and requested someone
test.


http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=1e7626e4


I've found a couple ways to get the source.  The git ghostscript repository is
quite big.  Also, ghostscript is the gs subdirectory of a bigger project.  To
get a snapshot of the head of just the gs subdirectory, go to


http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=tree;f=gs;h=ac4846540ab30033a6be0f92798c88caa15dd54b;hb=1e7626e4a9db58f9e5a531c04233bc8b04c52b1f


(Or just sort of navigate around the "tree" from the changeset diff listed
above until within the "gs" subdirectory.)  When within the source tree for
the "gs" subdirectory, look for the widget that says "snapshot" at the second
or third line on the page.  That will give you a tar file to use.

Extract the archive then run "autogen.sh" within the source code.  I ran into
a problem in which none of the automake tools were visible, e.g.,:


configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in "." "./.."
"./../.."


I created links for the following three utilities:


ln -s /usr/share/automake-1.11/install-sh
ln -s /usr/share/automake-1.11/config.sub
ln -s /usr/share/automake-1.11/config.guess


and "autogen.sh" followed by "configure" (probably redundant) followed by
"make" worked for me.

All I need to do to test in Octave environment is rename my "/usr/bin/gs" file
and create a link to the newly generated "gs" executable.

Please let me know if anyone else has compilation problems and needs to make
the fix I did.

If one wants the whole repository, try:


git clone git://git.ghostscript.com/ghostpdl.git


Again, that takes a while to download and is between 100 and 200 MB worth.

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