Bug 343447 – app-text/ghostscript-gpl: /usr/bin/gs doesn't link against /usr/lib/libgs.so

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Faustus 2010-10-31 00:36:40 UTC]

/usr/bin/gs doesn't link against /usr/lib/libgs.so.8.71 - instead, it appears to contain the same code as the library. This is ~6MB of duplicated code.

E.g., compare the sizes of gs and libgs, and do some greps:
  strings -a /usr/lib/libgs.so.8.71 | grep svg
  strings -a /usr/bin/gs            | grep svg

[Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel 2012-01-18 21:13:33 UTC]

This indeed still looks the same in 9.04-r4. Needs investigation.

[Comment 2 Faustus 2012-01-19 05:54:55 UTC]

What's the difference between gs and gsx?

[Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel 2012-05-27 12:54:33 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> /usr/bin/gs doesn't link against /usr/lib/libgs.so.8.71 - instead, it
> appears to contain the same code as the library. This is ~6MB of duplicated
> code.
> 
> E.g., compare the sizes of gs and libgs, and do some greps:
>   strings -a /usr/lib/libgs.so.8.71 | grep svg
>   strings -a /usr/bin/gs            | grep svg

gs buildsystem is a rather arcane piece of software. Unless someone helps out with patches this bug will remain unresolved, sorry.

[Comment 4 Nikoli 2012-11-05 20:45:23 UTC]

ubuntu (or debian) devs somehow solved this problem:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/ghostscript

Size of /usr/bin/gs is < 230 KB and package has libgs9 dep. The answer should be in http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_9.06~dfsg-0ubuntu4.debian.tar.gz

[Comment 5 Timo Gurr (RETIRED) 2014-02-12 19:29:08 UTC]

Fedora simply seems to rename/move the gsc executable to gs, I've added that change in ghostscript-gpl-9.10-r3 now as well.