X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48E6F3F8.6050404@veritech.com> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:41:28 -0400 From: "Lee D. Rothstein" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gs.exe missing from ghostscript package? References: <48E6E0AF.8030306@veritech.com> <48E6ECEF.B9AD666C@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <48E6ECEF.B9AD666C@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.0.1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Brian Dessent wrote: > "Lee D.Rothstein" wrote: > >> 'gs.exe' the Ghostscript interpreter is missing from my configuration. > > That's because there is not supposed to be a gs.exe. The ghostscript > packages use the alternatives facility, which means /usr/bin/gs is a > symlink to /etc/alternatives/gs which is a symlink to either > /usr/bin/gs-x11.exe or /usr/bin/gs-native.exe depending on how you've > configured your system. Either way, it should work to execute 'gs', Thanks It does not! ps2pdf invokes gs, and gs doesn't execute I.e..: $ which -a gs which: no gs in (.:/local/TextPad:/local/Scripts:/usr/bin:/bin:/local/usr/bin:/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/zzz/c/Wind ows:/zzz/c/Windows/system32:/local/bagels/bin:/zzup/ACDSee_10:/home/ldr/bin) But: $ ls -l gs* -rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 11148288 Apr 13 11:29 gs-native.exe -rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 11212800 Apr 13 11:29 gs-x11.exe -rwxrwxrwt+ 1 ldr root 125 Aug 3 20:07 gs.lnk -rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 376 Apr 13 11:27 gsbj -rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 378 Apr 13 11:27 gsdj -rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 381 Apr 13 11:27 gsdj500 -rwxrwxrwt+ 1 ldr root 21504 May 5 2005 gsftopk.exe -rwxrwxrwt+ 1 ldr root 1269 Apr 5 12:49 gsl-config -rwxrwxrwt+ 1 ldr root 4096 Apr 5 12:49 gsl-histogram.exe -rwxrwxrwt+ 1 ldr root 14848 Apr 5 12:49 gsl-randist.exe -rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 379 Apr 13 11:27 gslj -rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 376 Apr 13 11:27 gslp -rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 303 Apr 13 11:27 gsnd What causes the link to have its extension exposed and become inoperable within Cygwin? Even after I did a complete reinstall. I've seen this before. Does it have to do with the permissions? Lee -- Lee D. Rothstein VeriTech Merrimack, NH 03054 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/