Which rev of ghostscript for sunos 4.1.3

[jfer...@gmail.com]

I'm resurrecting a Sparc 10 using SunOS 4.1.3. suffice it to say that I have a reason to stick with 4.1.3. Alas, i need NeWSprint to feed fonts to the SPARCprinter. I no longer have the password to use the fonts I apparently own by virtue of having the rtu for NeWSprint and the Sun license lady has gone away. It has been suggested that I use ghostscript instead.

Sounds good to me.

So the question is, given a SunOS patched up to 2000, which rev of ghostscript is most likely to compile using the 4.1.3 C compiler? I did see a reference to gs 2.(?) compiling without a struggle.

or does it make more sense to install a gnu C compiler and if so which one?

[Didier Link]

Hi,

The support of SunOS 4.1.3 seems to be available in gs-gnu-5.50a (read
the Make.html file in the doc before) and after. The last version have
always a notice about make gs in SunOS environment but they haven't
tested this plateform.

Maybe you can try the 5.50a version ?


Best Regards

Didier Link
GNU Ghostscript maintainer

[jfer...@gmail.com]

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> The support of SunOS 4.1.3 seems to be available in gs-gnu-5.50a (read
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> the Make.html file in the doc before) and after. The last version have
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> always a notice about make gs in SunOS environment but they haven't
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> tested this plateform.
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> Maybe you can try the 5.50a version ?
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> Best Regards
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> Didier Link
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> GNU Ghostscript maintainer

Thank you Didier, I'll try it.

best,

john