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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Patchkit folks, get FreeBSD! (was:[386bsd] ghostscript 2.5.2 epson driver) Date: 22 Sep 1993 15:35:57 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 37 Message-ID: <27prct$if2@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <5@czos9.trystero.com> <27po4i$1sp@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu Keywords: 386bsd ghostscript epson In article <27po4i$1sp@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>, Larry Felawka <felawka@sitka.triumf.ca> wrote: >In article <5@czos9.trystero.com> chuck@czos9.trystero.com (Charles N. Owens) writes: > >Hi! I'm running 386bsd 0.1 with patchkit 0.2.4 and am trying to get > >ghostscript version 2.5.2 to work with my epson printer. > >Which compiler are you running? I found that gcc 1.39 didn't cut it when >I compiled gs 2.5.2 some time back (same problem which you decribed, but >with different driver). After I upgraded gcc things worked fine. Note, with the library fixes in FreeBSD, most everything compiles with both gcc2 and gcc1, so I would advise EVERYONE to upgrade to FreeBSD who is now running patchkit systems. There will NOT be another old-style patchkit release, since ALL of the patchkit folks have moved onto doing a brand-new release. I need to do one more change to my upgrade script, but after that I'll announce it's availablity more publically. The script allows you to upgrade your system from ANY 386BSD 0.1 system to FreeBSD. FreeBSD contains all of the patchkit patches, plus a boat-load more fixes, updates, features, etc.., and is still being developed. So, all you who are running patched up versions of 386bsd, realize that most of your problems have been addressed in FreeBSD, and if they haven't been addressed, they will *only* be addressed by upgrading to FreeBSD. Sorry to be a bear about this, but we do this for fun, and no-one has a patchkit system around anymore to help with bug fixes and such. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me