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The raw portfile for ghostscript 8.63 is located here:
http://ghostscript.darwinports.com/dports/print/ghostscript/Portfile
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The ghostscript Portfile 42568 2008-11-24 11:31:37Z takanori macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: ghostscript
Version: 8.63
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-std-8.11.tar.gz:fonts ghostscript-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz:fonts
Patch Files: patch-src_macos-fw.mak.diff patch-src_macosx.mak.diff patch-src_unix-aux.mak.diff
Checksums: ${distname}.tar.gz md5 b22e689b237a6594d1ca408f2b55a891 ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz md5 6865682b095f8c4500c54b285ff05ef6 ghostscript-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz md5 1a643ae62ef166562e4d422b1a601272

depends_lib lib:libX11:xorg port:cairo port:expat port:fontconfig port:libiconv port:zlib path:bin/perl:perl5.8

depends_build port:pkgconfig

# Can be removed once MacPorts 1.7.0 is released
if {![info exists frameworks_dir]} {
set frameworks_dir ${prefix}/Library/Frameworks
}

post-patch {
foreach f {src/macosx.mak src/macos-fw.mak} {
reinplace "s| DESTROOT |${destroot}|" ${worksrcpath}/${f}
reinplace "s| FRAMEWORKS_DIR |${frameworks_dir}|" ${worksrcpath}/${f}
}

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

# 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 --x-includes=${x11prefix}/include --x-libraries=${x11prefix}/lib --disable-cups

build.target
use_parallel_build no

post-destroot {
xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/${name}/fonts
foreach f {*.afm *.gsf *.pfa *.pfb *.pfm fonts.dir fonts.scale} {
eval xinstall -m 644 [glob ${workpath}/fonts/${f}] ${destroot}${prefix}/share/${name}/fonts
}
xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}-fonts
xinstall -m 644 -W ${workpath}/fonts COPYING ChangeLog README README.tweaks TODO ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}-fonts

ln -s ../${name}/${version}/doc ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}
}

livecheck.distname GPL Ghostscript

universal_variant no

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
}

# Added variant that build the Ghostscript framework. (Thanks, Sal!)
Variant: framework description {Build and install Ghostscript.framework} {
post-build {
move ${worksrcpath}/Makefile ${worksrcpath}/Makefile.CONFIGURE
ln -s ${worksrcpath}/src/macosx.mak ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
system "cd ${worksrcpath} && make framework"
delete ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
move ${worksrcpath}/Makefile.CONFIGURE ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
}

post-destroot {
xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/Library/Frameworks
move ${worksrcpath}/Makefile ${worksrcpath}/Makefile.CONFIGURE
ln -s ${worksrcpath}/src/macosx.mak ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
system "cd ${worksrcpath} && make framework_install"
delete ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
move ${worksrcpath}/Makefile.CONFIGURE ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
}
}

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: