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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I have compiled ghostscript, latest version, which does pdf 1.5 and JBIG2 
compression, with a lot of help from Doug Kaufman, in particular he 
explained how to edit a file to not include another file that was causing 
problems (stdbool.h from gcc 2.95.3).  I was unable to get it to compile 
for any display other than X (lvga256 or vgalib gave me error messages). 
I omitted the fax devices and bmp and pcx but added the dot-matrix printer 
devices epson and oki.  I also omitted some other newer-looking printer 
devices but left uniprint and rjink.

I compiled using gcc 2.95.3, binutils, and make from SW81, also glibc 
2.2.5, so that you will need an upgraded library to use it (same library 
you need for Opera or xpdf or the latest kermit unless they have gone to 
2.3.1).

If anyone is interested I can post it or send it to James to post at his 
site once I have tested it a bit and packaged it.

I can list the devices I included and if someone wants another one, 
recompile. (It is only the final step that needs to be redone now - the 
make, after editing Makefile).

Both xpdf and gs were able to read my test .pdf with JBIG2.
When I converted the pdf to ps with pdf2ps from xpdf the resulting ps was 
not readable by gs or bmv.  When I tried to convert with gs I got an error 
message.