Re: Problem with Ubuntu Raring Ringtail?

[David Kastrup]

James <address@hidden> writes:

> David,
>
> On 26/05/13 17:39, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Hi, I get a segfault within Ghostscript on a current Ubuntu system when
>> I do
>>
>> lilypond -dpreview input/regression/toc.ly
>>
>> Appended.  Anybody else who sees this problem?  Or is it only my system
>> or hardware which is broken?  It basically means that "make doc" is dead
>> for me right now.  Not good.
>
> I don't have RR as a build env, but it is my core OS (well it's
> actually Xubuntu so I am not sure if that matters).

Depends.  I think they may be a bit later in updates, so the problem
might not yet have arrived there (can't be there for long).

> I downloaded the latest dev (2.17.18) and then downloaded the toc.ly
> from the tree and compiled it thus (it worked fine but there are some
> messages at the end when GS is invoked):

> GPL Ghostscript 8.70 (2009-07-31)

That's not the version in Raring and actually astonishingly old.  I get

GPL Ghostscript 9.07 (2013-02-14)
Copyright (C) 2012 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.

-- 
David Kastrup