Bug 118761

Summary: Ghostscript: libgs.so is missing (library version on Ghostscript, used e.g. by gsview)
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Tobias Burnus <burnus>
Component: ConsoleAppsAssignee: Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 4   
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Description Tobias Burnus 2005-09-26 08:57:46 UTC 
One can also build Ghostscript as library; that way one accesses the API more
directly than through pipes.

Currently, libgs.so is not built.

Expected: libgs.so is built.

One program which uses libgs.so is GSView:
   http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
which is unfortunally only available under the Aladdin Free Public Licence and
can thus not be put on the CDs. Still it would be nice if one could install it
and it would simply run w/o needing to compile GhostScript.
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-09-26 09:49:09 UTC 
Nope, there is NO way to build espgs-8.15 with a libgs including
a builtin _VERSION_