[OS X TeX] dvisvgm and ghostscript

[Doris Behrendt]

Hi all,

I repeated the process (hoping that everything just is overwritten and not having to uninstall the ghostscript stuff).

This is the command I entered and the error I got:

dvisvgm --libgs=/usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/lib/libgs.dylib.9.53 --pdf ct-logo.pdf
ERROR: Ghostscript is required to process PDF files


This is the output of my terminal in the dir named lib:

(base) Doriss-Mac-mini:lib bd$ ls -l l*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      1468 Oct  7 01:37 landscap.ps
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  18259520 Oct  7 02:28 libgs.dylib.9.53
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      3736 Oct  7 01:37 lines.ps
(base) Doriss-Mac-mini:lib bd$ pwd
/usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.53.3/lib
(base) Doriss-Mac-mini:lib bd$ 


The output of list at least shows that there is no symbolic link, but the file is there.


And I found ONE strange thing:
The name of the package I downloaded ends with >>…53.3<<, but the header line of the Installer window ends with >>...53.2-Full<<.

The typo .2 instead of .3 could occur also in other places, right?
Can this be connected to the reason for my problems?


Doris

> On 23. Oct 2020, at 00:45, koch at uoregon.edu wrote:
> 
>> Most of those dylib files are actually symlinks. Is is it possible there’s a problem there? Maybe something went wrong during installation? This is what I have, but I installed ghostscript differently:
>> 
>> albemuth:~/tmp> ls -l /opt/brw/Cellar/ghostscript/9.53.3/lib 
>> total 26584
>> -r--r--r--  1 ealdrov  wheel  13610904 Oct  2 07:59 libgs.9.53.dylib
>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 ealdrov  wheel        16 Oct  2 07:59 libgs.9.dylib@ -> libgs.9.53.dylib
>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 ealdrov  wheel        16 Oct  2 07:59 libgs.dylib@ -> libgs.9.53.dylib
>> 
>> 
>> —Ettore
> 
> Folks,
> 
> When Ghostscript is compiled from source, the usual 
> 
> 	./configure
> 	make
> 	sudo make install
> 
> sequence does not create or install the ghostscript library. The library is created with a special command
> 
> 	make so
> 
> and three files are then placed in the folder sobin inside the source directory. Two are symbolic links,
> 
> 	libgs.dylib
> 	libgs.dylib.9
> 
> and one is an actual library,
> 
> 	libgs.dylib.9.53
> 
> Then there arises the issue of where these three files should be placed. For TeX Live this issue is not very important since only one binary, dvisvgm, uses the library.
> 
> MacTeX very deliberately installs nothing in /usr/local/lib because I don'r want to interfere with libraries the user might install there from other places. The Ghostscript install 
> 
> 	sudo make install
> 
> places the gs binary and many other scripts in /usr/local/bin, but installs everything else in
> 
> 	/usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.53.3
> 
> and this folder even contains a subfolder named lib. So that seemed to be a natural place to put the actual dynamic library.
> 
> As for symbolic links, I decided to break my own rule and add three links to /usr/local/lib named
> 
> 	libgs.dylib
> 	libgs.9.dylib
> 	libgs.9.53.dylib
> 
> I am not wedded to this final piece of the puzzle. Indeed I'd much rather install nothing in /usr/local/lib. And the few people who actually use dvisvgm seem to use the flag and point to the actual location of the library.
> 
> All of this does nothing to explain the problem Doris is having. ( Incidentally, I wonder what would happen if she installed our 9.50 package instead, since it also installs a library. After that test, 9.53.3 can be installed again and it will become active.)
> 
>  I'm just trying to warn us not to get involved with side issues. I hope it helps to know exactly what our package does.
> 
> Dick Koch
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