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The ghostscript Portfile 57453 2009-09-11 08:17:15Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: ghostscript
Version: 8.70
Category: print
Maintainers: takanori openmaintainer
Description: GPL Ghostscript, An interpreter for PostScript and PDF
Long Description: Ghostscript is the well-known PostScript interpreter which is available for all common and most esoteric platforms and supports many different printers and some displays.
Platform: darwin
Homepage: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
Master Sites: sourceforge:${name}:source sourceforge:gs-fonts:fonts
distfiles ${distname}.tar.gz:source ghostscript-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz:fonts
Patch Files: patch-base_unix-dll.mak.diff
Checksums: ${distname}.tar.gz rmd160 1516246b2a6b41650f2baeac8c7ae0fd88cfe43d ghostscript-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz rmd160 ab60dbf71e7d91283a106c3df381cadfe173082f

depends_lib port:xorg-libXext port:xorg-libXt path:lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc:cairo port:expat port:fontconfig port:jpeg port:libiconv port:libpng port:zlib path:bin/perl:perl5

depends_build port:pkgconfig

post-extract {
foreach d {zlib libpng jpeg} {
move "${worksrcpath}/${d}" "${worksrcpath}/${d}_local"
}
}

post-patch {
reinplace "s|__PREFIX__|${prefix}|" ${worksrcpath}/base/unix-dll.mak

# Ensure that MacPorts perl is used
foreach f {lib/fixmswrd.pl toolbin/bugsByEngineer.pl toolbin/pscet_status.pl} {
reinplace "s|#!/usr/bin/perl|#!${prefix}/bin/perl|" ${worksrcpath}/${f}
}
}

use_autoreconf yes
autoreconf.args -fv

# Make included JasPer uses its own headers rather than the system ones
configure.cppflags-delete "-I${prefix}/include"
configure.cppflags-append "-isystem${prefix}/include"

configure.args --disable-compile-inits --disable-cups --disable-gtk

build.target so
use_parallel_build no

destroot.target soinstall
post-destroot {
system "strip ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/gsc ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/gsx"
ln -s gsc ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/gs

xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/${name}/fonts
foreach f {*.afm *.gsf *.pfa *.pfm} {
eval xinstall -m 644 [glob ${workpath}/fonts/${f}] ${destroot}${prefix}/share/${name}/fonts
}

xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc
ln -s ../${name}/${version}/doc ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}

xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/${name}/${version}/examples/cjk
eval xinstall -m 644 [glob ${worksrcpath}/examples/cjk/*.ps] ${destroot}${prefix}/share/${name}/${version}/examples/cjk
}

livecheck.distname GPL Ghostscript

universal_variant no

Variant: no_x11 {
depends_lib-delete port:xorg-libXext
depends_lib-delete port:xorg-libXt
configure.args-append --without-x
}

Variant: cups description {Enable cups support} {
configure.args-delete --disable-cups
configure.args-append --enable-cups

# Informing user enable cups will install files outside of the common directory structure
destroot.violate_mtree yes
}

Variant: framework description {(removed)} {
pre-fetch {
ui_msg "IMPORTANT NOTICE: Support for Ghostscript.framework has been removed. Please use libgs.dylib instead. libgs is now installed by default."
}
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/ghostscript
%  sudo port install ghostscript  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching ghostscript
--->  Verifying checksum for ghostscript
--->  Extracting ghostscript
--->  Configuring ghostscript
--->  Building ghostscript with target all

--->  Staging ghostscript into destroot

--->  Installing ghostscript

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using ghostscript with these commands:

%  man ghostscript
%  apropos ghostscript
%  which ghostscript
%  locate ghostscript

 Where to find more information: