Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm 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 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:09:20 -0700 From: Dario Alcocer To: Eivind Throndsen Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Possible bug with cygwin packaging of Ghostscript 7.0.5 Message-ID: <20020826160920.A10121@ns.helixdigital.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020827000823.03306e20@online.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020827000823.03306e20@online.no>; from eivind.throndsen@oslo.online.no on Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:19:04AM +0200 On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:19:04AM +0200, Eivind Throndsen wrote: > > Dario, > I just tried to upgrade my cygwin installation with the latest > versions of GS in order to generate PDF files from Tex though ps2pdf. > It appeared as if something may be wrong with either the way I did it > (which is entirely possible, I did mess about a fair bit) or the > cygwin 7.0.5-1 package. It turned out that just loading the default > installed font set crashed. This is a known issue with the 7.05-1 release. As soon as I have some time, I'll make a new 7.05-2 release. In the meantime, the workaround is to use binary mounts for both /usr and any data directories that contain your Postscript input. NOTE: I have redirected this discussion to the cygwin mailing list, which is where package bugs are discussed. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/