Re: panel (could be imlib?) problems

[raster redhat com]

On 10 Apr, gnat@frii.com shouted:
->  raster@redhat.com writes:
->  > I think form now on we should make libpng, libtiif, libgif, libjpeg and
->  > libz compulsory for gnomem - that will stop problems liek this...
->  > anyone disagree for GOOD reasons?
->  
->  It took me *ages* to work out that the png, gif and tiff libraries I'd
->  installed from the FreeBSD packages weren't being picked up by the
->  gnome build.  For instance, the tiff libraries were installed as
->  libtiff34.a and libtiff34.so, which autoconf wasn't finding.

of course ti wasn't finding them! thats incorrect versioning naming for
libraries. that's BSD's problem. it shoudl be called libtiff.so.3.4

->  Does it make sense for distributions of these libraries, using
->  autoconf and installing with names that gnome wants, to be put into
->  the CVS tree?  I made a start at porting libgr to FreeBSD, but it's a
->  nasty business.
->  
->  I guess the other option is to have GNOME autoconf recognise FreeBSD's
->  dumbass installed names for the libraries :-)  Here's what I found:

how about fix BSD to be like the rest of the world? :)

->  giflib-3.0.tgz:
->  	Installs the headers in /usr/local/include/giflib/
->  	Installs the libraries /usr/local/lib/libgif.a and
->  	/usr/local/lib/libgif.so
->  
->  jpeg-6a.tgz:
->  	Installs headers in /usr/local/include/
->  	Installs libraries /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.7.0
->  	and /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a
->  
->  png-1.0.1.tgz:
->  	Installs headers /usr/local/include/
->  	Installs libraries /usr/local/lib/libpng.a and
->  	/usr/local/lib/libpng.so.2.1
->  
->  tiff-3.4.tgz:
->  	Headers /usr/local/include/tiff34
->  	Libraries /usr/local/lib/libtiff34.a and
->  	/usr/local/lib/libtiff34.so.1.0
->  
->  The bogus header installation of giflib and tiff34 gave me the biggest
->  grief.
->  
->  Nat

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