Bug 67913 – app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r7 has bad search path settings

• Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description dynamotwain 2004-10-17 11:40:38 UTC]

This ebuild causes ghostscript to be installed with a search path of
/var/tmp/portage/ghostscript-7.07.1-r7/image//usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib
instead of /usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib.

As a result, gs cannot find gs_init.ps, causing gs to abort upon every file I've tried to print.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge cups and ghostscript. Add printers to cups
2. Set the cups log level to debug is cupsd.conf
3. Print a test page
4. Read the error log.

Actual Results:  
"ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Cannot find initialization file gs_init.ps"
is in error log.

Expected Results:  
I'm expecting hundreds of pages of important documents to print.

[Comment 1 dynamotwain 2004-10-17 11:48:57 UTC]

As a temporary fix, one can just run the following hack:

> mkdir -p var/tmp/portage/ghostscript-7.07.1-r7/image//usr/share/ghostscript/7.07

> ln -s /usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib /var/tmp/portage/ghostscript-7.07.1-r7/image//usr/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib

as long as you don't routinely delete /var/tmp/portage.

[Comment 2 Michele Noberasco (RETIRED) 2004-10-17 14:48:40 UTC]

I'm hit by this bug, too...

[Comment 3 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-10-18 11:13:08 UTC]

please remerge ghostscript, that should fix the searchpath

[Comment 4 Michele Noberasco (RETIRED) 2004-10-18 12:28:10 UTC]

Yup, problem solved :-)