[tex-live] dvisvgm can't find libgs

[Florêncio Neves]

Please notice I wasn't talking about the Debian binaries (which I
haven't tested).  The problem I reported happens with the dvisvgm
binary one gets with TeX Live 2012 using tlmgr.

Best,
F.

On 11/19/12, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> On Mi, 14 Nov 2012, Florêncio Neves wrote:
>> The version of dvisvgm distributed with TeXLive 2012 can't seem to
>> find libgs automatically (if I point its location with --lib-gs
>> option, it works all right).  This happens to me on Debian 6 and
>> Fedora 16.
>>
>> To check whether dvisvgm can access the ghostscript library, one can run
>>   $ dvisvgm -l
>> and see if the line "ps         dvips PostScript specials" is printed.
>
> Indeed, I will make sure that on the next upload for Debian we build
> with gs-dev installed, so that the dvisvgm build finds the libraray.
>
> Thanks for reporting, and please if possible send a bug report against
> texlive-binaries to the Debian bug tracking system.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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