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Re: Transfer PDF metadata to outputfile with pdfwrite driver

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On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:22:03 +0200, Marco wrote:

> 2012-10-15 ken:
> 
>> Instead you can go to :
>> 
>> http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=summary
>> 
>> click the 'commit' link on the most recent entry in the log. From the
>> page which comes up press the 'snapshot' link. This should deliver you
>> a tarball (if I remember correctly) of the current source.
>> 
>> Unpack it somewhere convenient, run ./configure and make. Its possible
>> that snapshot may deliver the entire ghostpdl source (I don't remember
>> I'm afraid) In which case you need to do ./configure and make in the
>> ghostpdl/gs sub folder.
> 
> I will install the current dev version, since it will take some time
> until the fixed version will reach the repo of my distribution.
> 
> However, there seems to be something wrong with the `configure` script,
> the `--prefix` setting is ignored. If I run
> 
>     ./configure --prefix=/home/marco/usr/local
> 
> I get
> 
>     […]
>     Installation directory:             /usr/local […]
> 
> instead of
> 
>     […]
>     Installation directory:             /home/marco/usr/local […]
> 
> Is there another method of setting a custom installation directory?

The "--prefix" option seems to work for me in the Ghostscript configure, 
but not in the "GhostPDL" configure (known limitation).

Are you *sure* you used the script in the "ghostpdl/gs" directory, and 
not the one in the "ghostpdl" directory?

Chris

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Transfer PDF metadata to outputfile with pdfwrite driver Marco <netuse@lavabit.com> - 2012-10-13 11:17 +0200
  Re: Transfer PDF metadata to outputfile with pdfwrite driver ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-10-13 20:35 +0100
  Re: Transfer PDF metadata to outputfile with pdfwrite driver ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-10-15 13:39 +0100
    Re: Transfer PDF metadata to outputfile with pdfwrite driver Marco <netuse@lavabit.com> - 2012-10-15 15:12 +0200
      Re: Transfer PDF metadata to outputfile with pdfwrite driver ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-10-15 16:26 +0100
        Re: Transfer PDF metadata to outputfile with pdfwrite driver Marco <netuse@lavabit.com> - 2012-10-15 19:22 +0200
          Re: Transfer PDF metadata to outputfile with pdfwrite driver ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-10-16 07:54 +0100
          Re: Transfer PDF metadata to outputfile with pdfwrite driver Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-10-16 07:39 +0000
            Re: Transfer PDF metadata to outputfile with pdfwrite driver Marco <netuse@lavabit.com> - 2012-10-16 10:21 +0200
  Re: Transfer PDF metadata to outputfile with pdfwrite driver Marco <netuse@lavabit.com> - 2012-10-21 19:25 +0200
    Re: Transfer PDF metadata to outputfile with pdfwrite driver ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-10-22 07:52 +0100

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