Re: New release candidate - 4.13c-rc5

[Michael Williams]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:40:53PM +0900, Masayuki Hatta wrote:
> I prepared yet another RC.
> 
> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/a2ps/a2ps-4.13c-rc5.tar.gz
> 
> This time I think I could fix the build problem on *BSD (including
> MacOS X).  I tested this on FreeBSD by myself (I've got some access to
> a server which runs FreeBSD), and the MacPorts (MacOS X) maintainer
> confirmed this built nicely.

I'm the MacPorts maintainer. As Masayuki says, this is building fine for
me out of the box on OS X.

However, the Postscript generated remains incompatible with the Adobe
distiller, so a2ps output can't easily be printed using lpr on OS X or
viewed in OS X's default Postscript viewer (Preview.app) making it of
limited practical use on this platform. Because of this, I'm patching
it for Macports (currently at 4.13b) as described here:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.printing.a2ps.bugs/2583. 

Could this patch can't be applied to a2ps at source rather than by me
downstream? Does it cause problems on other platforms?

-- Mike