Bug 691322 - Init/gs_init.ps must exist or -sGenericResourceDir doesn't work.
Summary: Init/gs_init.ps must exist or -sGenericResourceDir doesn't work.
Status: NOTIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ghostscript
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Config/Install (show other bugs)
Version: master
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
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Reported: 2010-05-18 19:03 UTC by Marcos H. Woehrmann
Modified: 2011-10-02 02:35 UTC (History)
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Description Marcos H. Woehrmann 2010-05-18 19:03:51 UTC 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          Marcos H. Woehrmann

        

        
        

        
          2010-05-18 19:05:35 UTC
        

      






bin/gs -sGenericResourceDir=/Users/marcos/artifex/test-8.71/test/ -I./Resource/Init -sDEVICE=ppmraw -o test.ppm ./examples/tiger.eps

produces:

*** Warning: GenericResourceDir doesn't point to a valid resource directory.
               the -sGenericResourceDir=... option can be used to set this.



where:

touch test/Init/gs_init.ps
bin/gs -sGenericResourceDir=/Users/marcos/artifex/test-8.71/test/ -I./Resource/Init -sDEVICE=ppmraw -o test.ppm ./examples/tiger.eps

works as expected.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 2
        

        
          Marcos H. Woehrmann

        

        
        

        
          2010-05-18 19:07:35 UTC
        

      






This broke between 8.64 and 8.70, searching for the precise revision now.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 3
        

        
          Marcos H. Woehrmann

        

        
        

        
          2010-05-18 19:39:16 UTC
        

      






This appears to be a feature and not a bug, though at least one of customers does not think so:

r9495 | alexcher | 2009-02-20 11:10:04 -0800 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 6 lines

Check that gs_init.ps can be found at $(GenericResourceDir)Init/gs_init.ps
Issue a warning if this file cannot be found. Bug 690289.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 4
        

        
          Ray Johnston

        

        
        

        
          2010-09-27 00:51:02 UTC
        

      






With Alex's changes to make SEARCH_HERE_FIRST=0 (-P-) the default in 9.00,
I believe all of these issues are resolved. The GenericResourceDir now
seems to always resolve to a valid location, due to separate testing process
compared to the testing for gs_init.ps.

Note that  most of this is moot since by default, COMPILE_INITS=1 is used
to put the Resource path in the exectuable as %rom%Resource with all of the
required subdirectories such as Init (for gs_init.ps, etc.) CMap and Font.