Re: Problem Gsview and Ghostscript

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GianPiero Puccioni wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> There is a weird incompatibility with Gsview and Ghostscript
> I have installed GhostScript from the Fedora DVD and GsView from
> http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview (it says built under FC3),
> versions are:
> ghostscript-8.15.4-3.fc7
> gsview-4.8-1
> 
> What happens is that when I try to open a file it prints:
> Wrong version of DLL found.
>    Found version 81504
>    Need version  704 - 999
> 
> it seems that GS has changed the way it numbers revisions of the libgs.so
> library: 81504 instead of 815 and GSV doesn't like it. Is there a
> workaround for this? How do you change that number?
> 
> I'd like to have GSV working as it is really handy to make conversions
> from ps and PDF to various other formats.
> 
> Any advice?

gsview needs patching to mesh with ghostscript > 8 notion of versioning. 
The gsview rpm distributed from rpm.livna.org is patched thusly.

-- Rex


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