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Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 13:09:09 -0400
To: "Andreas Eibach" <a DOT eibach AT gmx DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Questionable inclusion of ghostscript in setup.exe?
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At 01:05 PM 5/1/2001, Andreas Eibach wrote:
>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



I believe this issue has been discussed.  Check the email archives for the
details.  I believe the direction is to include a non-X version.



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