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From: "Andreas Eibach" <a DOT eibach AT gmx DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Questionable inclusion of ghostscript in setup.exe?
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 19:05:08 +0200
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HI,

after reading several ghostscript threads in this mailing list for a while,
I ask myself if it isn't at least a bit questionable to really include
ghostscript in setup.exe. Facts are, that - on a standard Cygwin
distribution (i. e. _without_ X) there simply IS NO ready-to-use version of
ghostscript.

Norman Vine (thank you!) has managed to build a non-X ghostscript, however,
you must build it yourself and the binary distributed with Cygwin will ONLY
work with an X installation due to internal references to /usr/X11R6/*. IOW,
a non-X user can just move the binary to the trashcan because it won't make
use to him/her because it complains about a missing XFree DLL, LIBICE.DLL.

I suggest to either include a _non-X_ version or omit it because "the way it
comes", it's unusable for people who don't have X.

Andreas



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