[SUMMARY] Error for using ghostscript

From: Chi Man Wu - SAN (wuc@hkmail.sps.mot.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 1997 - 06:34:53 CDT


Hello admins,

        Special thinks to all for answer/comment :

Original Question :
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Hi,

        I just install Aladdin ghostscript 4.03 by following
        step:

        1) untar ghostscript-4.03.tar
        2) cd gs4.03
        3) untar ghostscript-4.03jpeg.tar
        4) untar ghostscript-4.03libpng.tar
        5) untar ghostscript-4.03zlib.tar
        6) correct the prefix, and path of jpeg, libpng, zlib
           for unix-cc.mak
        7) make
        8) make install
        9) Copy font to <install_dir>/share/ghostscript/fonts

        My System information is
        Hardware : Sparc20
        OS : SunOS 4.1.3_U1

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>From Laurent Duperval <laurent@Grafnetix.COM>

        What compiler did you use? If it's gcc-2.7.2, I think there is a bug in
        that version which causes the behavior you see. Check the docs, there
        is a workaround. Or, compile and install gcc-2.7.2.1.

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Martin Trampler <trampler@pi1.informatik.uni-mannheim.de>

        I assume you used gcc-2.7.X. to compile ghostscript.
        The problem is described in the file "make.txt":

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        gcc (all platforms):
                There is an optimizer bug in gcc 2.7.0, 2.7.1, and 2.7.2 that causes
        these versions of gcc to generate incorrect code. You can work around this
        by adding the switch
                        -Dconst=
        to the compilation switches (CFLAGS). Alternatively, you can rebuild gcc
        with the following patch:
        ----------------------------------------
        The patch is appended, but since I didn't want to recompile gcc I used
        the first method.

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From: Gary Richardson <uunet!agile.com!gpr>

        I've found that whenever I run into problems similar to this that when I
        switch over and use gcc instead of Sun's cc things compile fine.

        I don't know if this is your problem, but if you have gcc it might be
        worth trying to compile with this.

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