Re: [gs-devel] Re: [Omniprint-developer] Omniprint and Ghostscript 8.0

[Ralph G. <gi...@ar...>]

On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at 10:36  pm, Mark Hamzy wrote:

> I am glad that the ghostscript team would like to omni included into 
> the
> default build.  We certinaly want that.
> I am confused about your statement "cleaner build patch."  It sounds 
> like
> you do not want gmodule or C++ included
> by omni.  However, omni requires both of these.

Yes, it's the same old problem. We aren't willing to switch to the C++ 
compiler for the default build (at least not for a single driver's 
sake). Do you know a way around this? I experimented some with trying 
to compile just gomni (and possibly link) as C++, but wasn't 
successful. Can you think of a way around this? One possibility is to 
use g++ iff --enable-omni (which wouldn't be the default). I'd consider 
this for the 7.0x (GNU) branch, but not for 8.0.

Also, we'd like the other changes to unixlink.mak (LIBDLOPEN and 
LIBCPP) to be conditional on omni.dev, but that's really part of 
resoving the above.

> What do you suggest?

So I guess I don't have a good suggestion at this point. :( I just 
wanted to advise you we have a major release coming up, and see if you 
had any ideas.

Have you thought about an ijs bridge at all?

FWIW,
  -r