Re: ghostscript and svgalib.so.1 not compatible.

To: Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: ghostscript and svgalib.so.1 not compatible.
From: richard@elmail.co.uk (Richard Kettlewell)
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 96 11:24:32 +0100 (BST)
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Alan Eugene Davis writes:

>ghostscript won't run, even under X, since it is an a.out binary,
>while svgalib is ELF.  I don't remember seeing the solution to this
>on the lists.  Probably I just let it fly by.

The svgalib in the stable tree is an a.out package.  In the
development tree, there's an aout-svgalib package.

I would hope that by now the ghostscript in the development tree is
ELF, but I've not had time to check this.

-- 
Richard Kettlewell
richard@elmail.co.uk                    http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/

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