Re: OCTAVE_PROG_GHOSTSCRIPT for windows

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 21, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> Hello
> 
> 
> In 'acinclude.m4' in the development source, I found
> 
> dnl OCTAVE_PROG_GHOSTSCRIPT
> AC_DEFUN([OCTAVE_PROG_GHOSTSCRIPT], [
>  case "$canonical_host_type" in
>    *-*-cygwin* | *-*-mingw32* | *-*-msdosmsvc)
>      gs_names="gs gswin32"
>    ;;
>    *)
>      gs_names=gs
>    ;;
>  esac
> **********
> In Cygwin, is gs_names="gs gswin32" required? On cygwin, I am using 'gs.exe' 
> on cygwin.
> 
> 
>      gs_names="gs gswin32"
> 
> Is it better to be
>      gs_names="gs gswin32c"
> 
> This has been discussed in quite recently for pdf printing on windows.
> 
> http://old.nabble.com/Print-to-PDF-under-Windows-to26433734.html
> 
> Regards

For the print() function, should we look for "gs.exe" if the "gswin32c.exe" is 
not found?

Ben