ports/117878: ghostscript lacks dvips dependency
Steve Wills
steve at mouf.net
Tue Nov 6 20:10:02 UTC 2007
>Number: 117878
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: ghostscript lacks dvips dependency
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Nov 06 20:10:02 UTC 2007
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Steve Wills
>Release: 6.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
ghostscript installs dvipdf which is simply a shell script which eventually calls dvips. But, dvips is not a part of the ghostscript package. dvipdf therefore fails with "dvips: not found".
>How-To-Repeat:
install ghostscript-gpl port. run dvipdf with a dvi file.
>Fix:
Add dependency on dvips. dvips is either print/dvips or print/dvipsk-tetex. print/dvipsk-tetex may be preferable since it doesn't conflict with tetex things, where print/dvips does.
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