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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:11:50 +0900
From: Yukihiko Sohda <sohda AT is DOT titech DOT ac DOT jp>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: AFPL Ghostscript 6.50 cc errors
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Hi, Soren.

Cygwin doesn't have pthread functionality completely, yet.
So edit makefile as following.

290c296
< SYNC=posync
---
> SYNC=nosync

This means the gs doesn't use the pthreads.
But it works fine.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/6.50/Make.htm#No_multi_thread


On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:53:21 -0500 "Soren Andersen" <soren AT wonderstorm DOT com> wrote:
> I am needing to build Ghostscript from source and am using Cygwin (latest) 
> on WinNT to do it. I have gotten pretty far (I think) but the whole thing is 
> now stopped at a part that uses the pthreads (POSIX thread API). I am 
> getting a parse error from gcc and I wonder if anyone can help with a clue.
> 
> I really need (as opposed to am doing as an academic exercise of 
> some sort) to build this Ghostscript from source for my WinNT 
> system because I need to compile-in a custom device driver 
> ("hpdj") for HP Officejet hardware.
> 
> If anyone has successfully built this newest release of gs on 
> Cygwin, perhaps you'd be kind enough to offer some clues about 
> your procedure. Or if anyone has some clue about pthreads and 
> how it figures, is it really necessary, etc.

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Yukihiko Sohda <sohda AT is DOT titech DOT ac DOT jp>


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