Re: change of ghostscript download site (mxe-octave)

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

> From: John Donoghue 

> To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA "octave-maintainers> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/5/2, Mon 19:29
> Subject: Re: change of ghostscript download site (mxe-octave)
> 
> On 05/01/2016 08:15 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>>>  From: John Donoghue
>>>  To: octave-maintainers Tatsuro MATSUOKA
>>>  Cc:
>>>  Date: 2016/5/2, Mon 07:19
>>>  Subject: Re: Octave-maintainers Digest, Vol 122, Issue 1
>>>>    As a workaround I only change the download site.
>>>> 
>>>>   http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/old-gs-releases/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>    Tatsuro
>>> 
>>>  mxe-octave is now updated for the change in download paths
>>> 
>>>  ghostscript requires more than just updating the version and checksum
>>>  for version updates, as it also uses makefiles and config files
>>>  generated from native built ghostscript in order to set everything up
>>>  correctly.
>>> 
>>>  See src/ghostscript-mingw-* files in mxe-octave.
>>> 
>>  Thank  for the commit.
>>  I have execute hg pull and hg update and re re-configure and make
>> 
>>  [download] ghostscript
>> 
>>  Wrong checksum of package ghostscript!
>>  ------------------------------------------------------------
>>    28150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99%  344K 
> 0s
>>    28200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99%  586K 
> 0s
>>    28250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 6.98M 
> 0s
>>    28300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 4.37M 
> 0s
>>    28350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 4.94M 
> 0s
>>    28400K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99%  611K 
> 0s
>>    28450K .......... .......... .........                       100%  
> 223K=33s
>>  2016-05-02 09:04:01 (862 KB/s) - written to stdout [29163348/29163348]
>>  ------------------------------------------------------------
>>  [log]      
> /home/tatsuro/work/octave/mxe-octave/mxe-octave-w64/log/ghostscript-download
>> 
>>  I have made a changeset for correcting the checksum.
>>  (attached)
>>   
>>  Tatsuro
> The checksum is correct in the update I had pushed to mxe-octave. It 
> looks like you have changed the file extension from tar.gz to tar.bz2
> 
> On the committed version it is:
> 
> PKG             := ghostscript
> $(PKG)_IGNORE   :=
> $(PKG)_VERSION  := 9.16
> $(PKG)_CHECKSUM := cc06fbf8244b9e8d0694cee5bf3be5bdd444b888
> $(PKG)_SUBDIR   := $(PKG)-$($(PKG)_VERSION)
> $(PKG)_FILE     := $(PKG)-$($(PKG)_VERSION).tar.gz
> $(PKG)_URL      := 
> http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/old-gs-releases/$($(PKG)_FILE)
> $(PKG)_DEPS     := jpeg lcms libpng tiff zlib



Sorry! Perhaps my cleanup was inadequate and led to the wrong checksum.

BTW, this is just from curiosity, why are you using tar.gz instead of tar.bz2?
As you know, size of *.tar.gz is larger than that of *.tar.bz2.

Tatsuro