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Re: Gs
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Efraim Flashner |
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Re: Gs |
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Sun, 24 Jul 2016 09:43:06 +0300 |
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On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 01:03:07PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > the following commit
> > commit eb354bdacbf4154ec66038dac07f19bf4ced1fad
> > Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon May 9 15:54:34 2016 +0200
> >
> > gnu: ghostscript: Do not build the statically-linked 'gs' binary.
> >
> > * gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm (ghostscript)[arguments]: Remove
> > 'build-so' and 'install-so' phases. Replace 'build' and 'install'
> > phases.
>
> Ahem, I plaid guilty.
>
> > removes "gs" from the ghostscript package. However, this is the usual
> > program
> > that people expect. For instance, unison uses it for building its
> > documentation. Is there a dynamically linked binary which replaces gs?
> > If yes, should we add a symbolic link?
>
> I think so.
>
> For the current solution (avoiding a full rebuild), see commit
> 61dc82d9b90d0545739c30bfc33003bd062071f0. LilyPond could hard-code the
> file name of ‘gsc’.
>
> Alternately, we could provide a wrapper containing a ‘gs’ symlink.
I think this was the option I liked the most, I don't believe any
functionality is lost with a gs->gsc symlink, and it would still keep
the reduced size of the closure.
>
> This has been discussed with Efraim IIRC, though I can’t find the thread
> now.
I think we mostly discussed it on IRC
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ludo’.
>
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