Ghostscript 8.62_1+Universal fails on PPC macs

[Ryan Schmidt]

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On May 20, 2008, at 09:46, vcpatel at emory.edu wrote:

> Hello. I have installed Ghostscript 8.62_1+Universal on a NFS share  
> that
> is mounted by various Intel and PPC Macs. gs works fine on Intel Macs
> but does not work on PPC macs (gives Bus error). All computers are
> running OS X 10.5.2 with all updates applied. Here is the output of  
> the
> same command run on Intel and PPC Macs:
>
> Intel
> =====
>> which gs
> /opt/local/bin/gs
>> gs -q -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT
> -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=0
> "-sDEVICE=pngalpha" -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-r72x72"
> -g612x792  "-sOutputFile=test.png" test.ps
>
> test.png is created successfully
>
> PPC
> ===
>> which gs
> /opt/local/bin/gs
>> gs -q -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT
> -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=0
> "-sDEVICE=pngalpha" -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-r72x72"
> -g612x792  "-sOutputFile=test.png" test.ps
> Bus error
>>
>> gs -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000
> -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=0 "-sDEVICE=pngalpha" -dTextAlphaBits=4
> -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-r72x72" -g612x792  "-sOutputFile=test.png"  
> test.ps
> Bus error
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.