Re: gEDA: pcb-20060422 snapshot

[Dan McMahill <dan-at-NOSPAMmcmahill_dot_net>]

Daniel Wisehart wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 April 2006 14:06, Dan McMahill wrote:
> 
>>1) just detect no gif support in GD and turn off the GIF output.  I
>>don't like this because I don't like the way some autoconf based
>>programs enable and disable user visible features based on what it finds
>>on your system.  Thats why PCB will spit out a message saying "your GD
>>doesn't support this, if you still want to continue, you need to add
>>--disable-gif"  That way you have explicitly acknowledged that you are
>>not going to get GIF support and you know why.
>>
>>2) never support gif output.  This also seemed lame.
>>
>>Maybe what I need to do is detect your strange condition where
>>
>>--disable-gif && --disable-jpeg && --disable-png are all listed and then
>>try and take out the png HID entirely.
> 
> 
> The issue this leaves is that if they use --disable-gif, and libz is not 
> available to link, the link will fail.  It seems to me that --disable-gif 
> should not still require libz to still be there.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 

If you're still getting -lz the it is because your gdlib-config is broken.

Try running "gdlib-config --libs".  If it has "-lz" and you don't have 
libz then it means you have a broken gd installation.

-Dan