Bug 21896

this is a mini howto on how to use the stp driver with the ghostscript6
port for freebsd.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

stp printing with FreeBSD
Mini-HOWTO
=========================

by Philipp Huber <uebs@gmx.at> (C) 2000


The Ghostcsript6 Port of FreeBSD does not include the stp driver, therefore it's
necesseray to do some changes by hand :)

First of all, the Ghostscript6 Ports has to be downloaded, extracted and
patching must be done.

	cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript6
	make patch
	
After this, download print-3.1.9 (or another version, i did it with this
one) from
	
	http://download.sourceforge.net/gimp-print/print-3.1.9.tar.gz

Place the file into the workdir of the ghostscript6 port and unzip it:

	cp print-3.1.9.tar.gz /usr/ports/print/ghostscript6/work/gs6.01
	cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript6/work/gs6.01
	tar xzf print-3.1.9.tar.gz
	
Follow the directions as described in "Ghost/README":
First, copy all *.c and *.h files into the ghostscript src directory.

	cd print-3.1.9/Ghost
	cp *.c ../../src/
	cp *.h ../../src/
	
Edit "contrib.mak" in the src directory of ghosts
cript (where the *.c and
*.h files where copied to in the previous step). Add the contents of the
file "contrib.mak.addon" in the "print-3.1.9/Ghost" directory at the end of the
"contrib.mak" file.
The next step is to add "$(DD)stp.dev to the line "DEVICE_DEVS6=" in
"unix-gcc.mak".

After all these changes have been made, do a

	cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript6 ; make install

All should compile fine, and after that you have ghostscript6 with the
stp driver compiled in. Run "gs -h" to be absolutely sure :)

Don't forget to update or adjust your filters! 
See print-3.1.9/Ghost/README for further details and examples.


All this should work with NetBSD and OpenBSD as well, but i didn't test
it anyway.

If you have any questions or comments, please mail me: uebs@gmx.at

Good luck and have fun :)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------