Bug 689788

Summary:	User suggested improvement to Ghostscript build
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Marcos H. Woehrmann <marcos.woehrmann>
Component:	Build Process	Assignee:	Ralph Giles <ralph.giles>
Status:	NOTIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4
Version:	8.62
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	MacOS X
Customer:		Word Size:	---
Attachments:	patch

Description Marcos H. Woehrmann 2008-04-09 12:09:35 UTC

A user, Hauke Klein <klein@math.uni-kiel.de>, sent the attached patch along with this email;

while building ghostscript 8.62 with non-standard settings for GLGENDIR, GLOBJDIR, ...
I noticed a few small inconsistencies in ghostscripts makefiles. The attached patch should
fix these. I'm also building with a separate build directory. Unfortunately, the resulting path
strings overflow a static buffer in echogs.c. The patch also changes the size of these
buffers. I'm just including limits.h, I should probably guard this with an HAVE_LIMITS_H
or something like this.

Comment 1 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2008-04-09 12:10:27 UTC

Created attachment 3927 [details]
patch

Comment 2 Ralph Giles 2008-04-10 16:46:15 UTC

Fixes committed in r8634 and r8635. We don't use PATH_MAX (or FILENAME_MAX
or...) because it's not reliably defined, so I just bumped it from an arbitrary
100 to an arbitrary 1000.

Thanks for the report.