Bug 690580

Summary:	Search path "c:/gs" reported by GhostScript (on Windows)
Product:	Ghostscript	Reporter:	Govert J. Knopper <govert>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Ray Johnston <ray.johnston>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P4
Version:	8.64
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Customer:		Word Size:	---
Attachments:	gs_console_scrn

Description Govert J. Knopper 2009-06-29 01:17:35 UTC

This is what GS tells (about the paths) when running "gswin32c -help"

.........
Search path:
   . ; C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.64\lib ; C:\Program Files\gs\fonts ;
   C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.64\Resource ; %rom%lib/ ; c:/gs/gs8.64/lib ;
   c:/gs/gs8.64/Resource/Font ; c:/gs/fonts
Initialization files are compiled into the executable.
For more information, see c:/gs/gs8.64/doc/Use.htm.

I believe the paths with "c:/gs/...." make no sense; there is nothing there
(with a default install)

Not severe, (imho) not very elegant either

Comment 1 Ray Johnston 2009-06-29 09:31:19 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 690146 ***

Comment 2 Govert J. Knopper 2009-06-29 13:29:16 UTC

Created attachment 5173 [details]
gs_console_scrn

I have the impression that it is misunderstood what I meant

I am referring to the search paths that GS help displays. "C:/gs/..." make no
sense. See text near bottom of attched screendump

Govert

Comment 3 Govert J. Knopper 2009-07-03 06:26:06 UTC

See additional comment #2 below; forgot "Reopen bug"

Comment 4 Ralph Giles 2009-07-30 10:24:30 UTC

I think this should be cleaned up now that compile_inits is the default. It's
not a serious issue though. Slows startup and clutters the help message, basically.

Comment 5 Ray Johnston 2010-02-01 10:05:59 UTC

What I get is:

   . ; Resource/Init ; %rom%Resource/Init/ ; %rom%lib/ ;
   c:/gs/gs8.71/Resource/Init ; c:/gs/gs8.71/lib ;
   c:/gs/gs8.71/Resource/Font ; c:/gs/fonts

Even if there are directories that don't exist, this doesn't cause a problem,
particularly since we only search there if we don't find them on an earlier
path and with COMPILE_INITS=1 the %rom% paths always succeed.