on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:23:07AM -0800, Eric G. Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0800, "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> > on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:03:18AM -0800, Craig Dickson (crdic@yahoo.com) wrote:
> > > Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm finding gv is almost unusable under Sid due to font errors, e.g.:
<...>
> > > Do you have the GS_LIB environment variable set to these two directories?
> > > If not, try that and see if it helps.
> >
> > Interesting. I've got that in my /etc/profile (I *thought* I'd added
> > something like it), added Dec 13:
> >
> > export GS_LIB=/usr/share/gs/6.51:/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts
> >
> > ...but the value doesn't seem to be getting propogated (I'm starting via
> > wdm). I've changed /etc/environment to just source /etc/profile.
> >
> > Setting that value (forced in my ~/.bashrc) seems to fix things.
>
> After updating gs-aladdin & gs-common today, I started to see these
> errors as well. But, the problem is not that you should need a GS_LIB
> environment variable, but that gs-common seems to not invoke the
> proper "defoma" install/update script. So, I looked at the
> README.defoma for gs-common, and right there is a line about updating
> defoma via "defoma update gs" -- sure enough, it works.
Hmmm...
I just ran that as root, launched a new shell, unset GS_LIB, and tried
viewing a ps page:
$ df | mapage -1 | gv -letter -magstep -1 -
...which doesn't work. I get the same font errors.
Restoring the environment variable works.
Odd.
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