Have you made sure to search the mailing list archives of both
bug-lilypond and liliypond-devel? I'm pretty sure you can find
an explanation of the patch there.
Also, when talking about Ghostscript versions, note that there
are two parallel sets of versions, the GNU and the AFPL versions.
/Mats
Quoting Quentin Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello everyone,
I'm an occasional user of lilypond, and new to this list. I'm also
the maintainer of a few packages in Fedora Extras, and I'm
considering submitting lilypond for inclusion there. Initially I
built everything (version 2.8.1) from source and I ran into the PDF
file size problem that apparently several others have noticed. I
downloaded the GUB installer and the file sizes are sane again.
However, I would really like to get things working properly with RPM
packages. At this point, mftrace is the only dependency that is not
in Fedora Core or Extras, so I would need to submit packages for
mftrace and lilypond.
Anyway, I saw the patch that someone posted on the bug list for
GhostScript 8.53. I backported the patch (basically the only
difference is the line numbers) to the version of 8.15 that is
currently in Fedora, and amazingly, my PDFs are now back down to
their small sizes again. I have attached the patch for anyone
interested. It should be noted that while this lilypond setup has
been working for me, it fails when building the documentation, so
clearly there are special cases that gs 8.15 can't handle. I would
like to put a request in Fedora's bugzilla to add this patch,
however, I would like to present a convincing reason for why it needs
to be included. Can someone give an explanation of what the patch
does and where it came from (is this already in upstream CVS, for
example)?
-Quentin
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